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Red-Hot Stuff for the Politicians 

And Men Who Do Not Want to End This 
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By DAVID WATSON 



This Book Convincingly Answers the Question, 
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peace before stupid humanity plunges into a worse hell. It is time to 
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GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE JOSHUA OF AMERICA. 

Once in London, Benjamin Franklin was dinmg with two triends, 
one of whom was an EngUshman and the other a Frenchman. As 
three nationalities were represented, it was suggested that each of the 
men propose a toast to his country. The Englishman rose first, and 
like a John Bull, exclaimed: "Here's to England, the sun that gives 




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light to all the nations of the earth." The Frenchman responded 
proudly in a similar vein, "Here's to France, the moon whose magic 
rays move the tides of the world." Then Franklin arose and, with an 
air of quaint modesty, remarked : "Here is to George Washington, 
the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and moon to stand 
still — and they obeyed." — Selected. 



This Elegant Stuff 

is very tenderly dedicated 

to the 

Washington, D. C, Political guys 

that wear Wall Street dog collars. 

Howls are now in order. 



HENRY FORD, WAKE UP, 

do something practical toward stopping this British 
War on Germany; take a million copies of this 
strenuous book and distribute them and make these 
political guys that favored feeding and prolonging 
this slaughter in Europe howl and howl. Use this 
fiery stuff and make them wish they had not 
done it. 



CHAPTER I. 

HOT STUFF FOR DECEIVERS 

Are You a Saphead? 

If you can reason and this book is a lie, you can easily nail it. 
If it is the truth, then these Washington buncombe-tooters rule us 
and our national and international affairs as though we were a nation 
of sapheads and hypocrites. Read this hot stuff half-way through 
and if you are not stupid, you will not need any one to tell you that 
it is the solemn truth. But it is hell to treacherous deceivers to be 
exposed. That is just what they deserve for being deceivers, let them 
take their medicine; get behind this hot stuff and rub it in. This 
book has the punch to sober up this war-mad world. If you know any 
other way to bring stupid humanity to their senses, get busy and do 
it before the deceivers force them into a worse hell. It is time to ex- 
pose deceivers regardless of how exalted they are and have no mercy 
for their feelings. As many columns of vituperation as have been 
used here to deceive the people, no fair-minded man — no one but a 
deceiver would insist that only one side be allowed to indulge in that 
game of denunciation. Expose the politicians that pose as statesmen 
and deceive this nation and have no mercy for their feelings any more 
than they have had for those whom they have so brutally maligned 
here. Get busy; this book is the stuff for such men. 

Last August and September (1915) this manuscript floated around 
among various N. Y. City publishers; but none of them of whatever 
nationality cared to lose money by publishing it. Recently it was 
hastily revised and made much hotter. Get busy and help the pub- 
lishers push the book and bring people to their senses. I would never 
write such a book as this if there were any other way to bring the 
sapheads to their senses. Such a motive justifies me; but money 
would not. If this book brings the American people to their senses, 
this war will end suddenly enough. To end this war I am willing to 
take all the abuse this hot book will call down upon my head for 
exposing how the people here are deceived. 

How to Get Honest Politicians 

That will not promise one thing before election and then do the 
other thing after elected. A new, sure-do-it method that will make 
patriotic citizens laugh and weep for joy and stir the politicians as 
they have never been stirred since they smelled pork and it became 
contagious for them to lie and graft and rush for the barrel. It will 



wake up the politicians like a stick of dynamite — Democratic, Repub- 
lican, Socialistic, not excepting that ferocious egotist of Oyster Bay. 
What causes hard times? What has the tariff to do with it? The 
most stirring political book since Uncle Tom's Cabin. The explana- 
tion of how the European scrap will yet affect the 1916 campaign will 
alone attract universal attention. Original, witty, live, hot stuff that 
will disilluzionize the obfuscated sapheads. 

How to Get Honest Politicians By a Warranted-to-do-it 

Method 

Politicians, like eels, never enjoy being skinned ; nevertheless, the 
skinning has to be done. You will notice that the hides have been 
lifted from a bunch of politicians of various brands. Of the lot I con- 
sider Old Bull Moose hide toughest and you will observe that I helped 
myself to a plenty of that hide. 

O, this is not polite literature and I do not care how much you 
cuss, just so you keep on reading. It is time to tell the truth regard- 
less of whose political mug gets busted. The reasons given will not 
fail to convince any devil of that. It is only fools and mad bulls that 
believe in rushing ahead without looking at what they are butting 
into. This book is an eye-opener and has no mercy on those whoi 
deceive and obfuscate the American people. Read this merciless ex- 
posure through and do a lot of sober thinking before you go off half- 
cocked like that Oyster Bay demagogue. 

No, thank you, I never take anything stronger than coffee ; but I 
give knock-out drops to shifty politicians and grafters. 

Col. Theodore Roosevelt 

That big-mouthed ranter last summer broke loose with the edict: 
"It is time for action." Well, why did not he head for the trenches 
and there turn loose with his ferocious gas? A good reason why; he 
would never get a chance to shoot a German in the back like he did 
the Spaniard fleeing for his life and then rush home like a hero and 
write a book about That German I Shot in the Back. That Col. 
Roosevelt recently said of himself: "Wilson fears ME." Wilson may 
be afraid of that Oyster Bay "ME" ; but that "ME" is not dangerous 
unless he catches you with your back toward him. I bet you when I 
get through with that ferocious "ME" he will go away back and squat 
down. Hot wallops are handed to a bunch of other politicians also, 
else they might feel slighted. 

Prof. Woodrow Wilson 

I tell you, fellow citizens, he is a great precedent precedent; he 
has kept us from being whipped by Mexico. For I tell you some of 
us are not too proud to fight. It takes a great man to butt into Huerta 
like the President did and set the Greasers to slaughtering Americans 
worse than ever and then not interfere and stop their bloody amuse- 

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merit of potting Americans. It takes a great man then to keep hands 
off. Fellow citizens, if you and I were only down in Mexico and the 
treacherous Greasers were trying to pot us, then we should fully ap- 
preciate the professor's kind of greatness. Yes, but his friends said, 
Taft did nothing with the Mexican muddle. Fellow citizens, after 
what you and I did to that Taft administration who would ever have 
thought that another would so soon invite the same wallop? 

Once, fellow citizens, once we had a great man for President, 
and he was called "The Illinois baboon," "The nigger lover" by some 
of these very daily papers of N. Y. City which now make such a loud 
noise that to be a loyal American citizen you must stand by the pro- 
fessor who let his gall slip up where his honor should have been down 
at Baltimore; you will find hot stuff all the way through the book. 
Hot stuff backed up by facts and rubbed in so as to start the howls 
of the buncombe-tooters. This book has a heavier load of hot stuff 
in it than any ammunition ship that ever went to Europe. 

A campaign has been launched for the sterilization of fifteen mil- 
lion Americans according to the International News Service as well 
as N. Y. City dailies. A eugenic organization, after four years' work 
in this country and Europe, reached the conclusion that sterilization 
of defectives is the greatest work before them. The committee on 
sterilization in its report demands the sterilization of 92,400 persons 
in this country this year. They have the backing of many prominent 
persons and multi-millionaires and intend to rush the matter with 
Congress. They have discovered the fact that where the sole object is 
to prevent the reproduction of life, sterilization is possible. They esti- 
mate that about 10 per cent, of the present population of the United 
States ought to be sterilized. These defectives are such a burden 
upon society and cost the country so many hundreds of millions that 
they want to make sure that they have no descendants. 

I have been all over the country investigating and I have seen 
how 'it does cost this nation hundreds of millions every year just for 
one class of defectives alone. This class of defectives cannot see the 
same after election that they do before they are elected. Now I have 
fully investigated this class of defectives and find their defect is a 
gyrating intellect. They cannot help seeing things differently after 
they are elected from what they did before they were elected. These 
defectives with gyrating intellects cost the nation hundreds of millions 
of dollars every year. Now, sterilization is the sure cure. Then we 
can breed politicians that can see the same after election that they do 
before they are elected. Then we can get an honest man like Hearst 
on the job, but not now. Up bobs some aesthetic gent and bewilders 
and obfuscates the voters with his exquisite promises and gyrating 
intellect, and before you are aware he is on the job and the taxpayers 
are in for it again. 

If men and women invest their savings in railroad stocks and 
some big crook loots that road and a bunch of the stockholders are 
reduced to want and suffer and go insane, they are to be sterilized on 
the ground that they are defectives. Sterilize the big crook as well as 



his victims. The crook is defective; he is soulless — has no heart. 
Sterilize the big swindlers as well as his victims. There are a bunch 
of big crooks that cost this nation more every year than all the insane 
asylums and other institutions for defectives do. Why sterilize the 
victims and not sterilize the swindlers that cause panics, bankruptcies, 
suicides and insanity? 

Who Made Prof. Wilson President? 

Many persons are not aware how Prof. Wilson happened to get 
the nomination for President, though Mr. Clark could inform them. 
So also could that beaming Nebraska sunflower that is so charmed 
with himself; but it would not redound to the trustworthiness of his 
hypnotic jaw as a delegate. It has long been the Democratic custom 
that when one seeker after the nomination for the Presidency has a 
majority of the votes of the delegates, then all other seekers withdraw 
their names. Prof. Wilson could not abide by that custom and with- 
draw his name like the honorable men before him did. Yet he since 
had the gall to talk about having "a decent regard for what others 
think." Mr. Clark had a majority of the votes, not one ballot only, 
but for forty-one or forty-two ballots, and yet Prof. Wilson would not 
withdraw his name and bow to the Democratic custom as the honor- 
able men before him had done. He had the unprecedented gall to 
stick through it all, 42 ballots. It was Prof. Wilson's unprecedented 
gall that got him the nomination down at Baltimore. Prof. Wilson 
recently said (Feb. 27) : "The responsibilities of the office (Presidency) 
ought to sober a man even before he approaches it." Yes, I think so 
myself and you can see how it sobered Prof. Wilson down at Balti- 
more. I know twaddle and buncombe when I hear it. Prof. Wilson 
says : "The Republic was founded upon a profound principle of human 
liberty and of humanity." Prof. Wilson, that is just what Wm. Ran- 
dolph Hearst stands for and fights for. You can tell what Hearst 
stands for by the kind of men and pluguglies that always fight' him. 
Hearst is such a fighter that he does not have to rely upon buncombe 
or twaddle like the present outfit at Washington. If this is not the 
truth, the sapheads will be able to see it by the time they have read 
this book half way through. 

A man who will allow his gall to slip up where his honor should 
have been and then prate about having "a decent regard for what 
others think" should not be allowed to imagine that he is the only 
political pebble on the Democratic beach and then let him blow off 
through his hat that the Democrats are sure to win when it is only a 
political minority administration. Slippery Democratic politicians 
told me months before the raw gall of those 42 sweltering ballots at 
Baltimore that the big interests (crooked) wanted Prof. Wilson and 
not Mr. Clark nominated. See how the lawless men of Wall Street 
robbed the stockholders of untold millions by looting the New Haven 
R. R. But there would have been no exposure of that gang of crooks 
— not if Wilson's man, the U. S. Attorney General at the time, could 
have prevented it. Mr. McReynolds sat upon the lid ; but pestiferous 



Folk persisted in raising both the lid and McReynolds. And Mr. Wil- 
son showed which side he was on by rewarding McReynolds and 
boosting him on to the U. S. Supreme Court bench, where he can de- 
cide on important matters for the Wall Street gang. Mr. Wilson was 
serving the men who looted the New Haven R. R. then. That loyal 
American, Wm. Randolph Hearst, says : "This is a government for the 
protection of the powerful and the exploitation of the weak." 

It is time to tell the truth red hot to Prof. Woodrow Wilson, and 
that ferocious Roosevelt and high-and-mighty Wall Street and their 
foxy Root and hoodoo Bryan and the lying papers that deceive the 
American ignoramuses and greedy sapheads here. 

It is time to tell people what real Americanism is and do it in a 
way that will stir the measly liars and deceivers. It is time to let 
those who believe in Americanism know what a loyal, patriotic Amer- 
ican Wm. Randolph Hearst is. This book will make you Tories and 
liars howl. Everything hot has been stuck into this book to wake 
up the maudlin sapheads and ignoramuses and liars and demagogues. 
If what I say is not the truth, you will have no trouble disproving it. 
If it is not the truth you will not need to howl about it. If it is the 
truth, damn it, it ought to be published and pushed, and if you are one 
who wants this book go do not fail to let the publishers know it and 
help them. You do not have to agree with everything in the book to 
want it to go. 

Germany started out to conquer England with her millions and 
millions of inhabitants and subjects and France with her 44 millions 
and Russia with her 120 millions and Belgium with her seven and a 
half millions. We American sapheads know this is the solemn truth 
because that lying pirate, John Bull, says it is so. You ignoramuses, 
Germany could not have kept out of this war of England's on Ger- 
mans. I show you, crazy sapheads, how you are deceived. If this 
book does not stir you, you are a dead one; call in the undertaker. 
Read this book and you will see that Wilson has cut his political 
throat. I am happy to inform you that this book insures the defeat 
of that Terrible "ME," Roosevelt. I am delighted to get "Me's" hide 
nailed on the barn-door to dry. Many of the worthless, titled bums of 
England would die paupers if it were not for the silly American heir- 
esses. Heavily tax the properties of all extirpated title-chasers. 

Sapheads, read this book through and you will find that you are 
just like the crazy Georgians that would not read the evidence in the 
Leo Frank case and that wanted to mob the Governor because he did 
read it. Not one of those rebels that took part in that lynching of 
Leo Frank can feel that Leo Frank was guilty, and not one of them 
cannot help but feel that they committed a fiendish, traitorous crime 
when they lynched him. It was done because the rest of the country 
considered Leo Frank innocent and he did not get a fair trial, and the 
rebels looked upon that as interfering with their local affairs and he 
was a northern man. 

The late Alfred Henry Lewis wrote: "To-day, as twenty years 
ago, during the Cleveland regime, the country is being run by Wall 



Street. Now as then Big Money is in the saddle. Also Big Money 
means not only American money, but English money ; and is as much 
the alias of Lord Cowdray and S. Pearson & Son, as it is of Mr. Mor- 
gan, Mr. Hill and Mr. House. . . . You are inclined to challenge 
the assertion. Take a look backward glance. Wasn't the New Haven 
muddle in its last arrangement adjusted to suit the wish of Big 
Money? Wasn't the telephone troubles settled upon plans submitted 
by Big Money? Isn't the Union Pacific just now splitting up an im- 
proper $85,000,000 as an alleged dividend because Big Money insists? 
As irons still in the fire. Big Money counts the Panama Canal (repeal 
of free tolls), the 5 per cent, freight rate advance and the rescue of the 
Steel Trust from dissolution or dismemberment. Big Money looks 
forward in these affairs to a triangle of triumphs. 

Get at it by the Socratic method upon the hope that you have not 
read your Plato for fun. Doesn't Mr. Wilson, during his New York 
City visits, stop at the home of Mr. House? Isn't Mr. House, when in 
Washington, as much at home in the White House as Mr. Wilson? 
Can anyone to-day climb the White House back stairs without bump- 
ing into Mr. House in the dark? Aren't Mr. Morgan, of Wall and 
Broad, and Lord Cowdray, of England and Mexico, the partners of 
Mr. House? Don't all these names mean the railroads, together with 
the bonds and stocks thereof?" — From the N. Y. "American." 

Since Mr. Lewis wrote this, the free tolls for American ships have 
been repealed and the 5 per cent, freight rate increase has been se- 
cured and no one has expected the Steel Trust to be dissolved, not 
after the way our politicians run the courts and the administration. 

With the possibility of war with Mexico staring this administra- 
tion right in the face for three years, it spent millions on pork and next 
to nothing on military defense of our Mexican border. Yet this short- 
sighted gang- has the nerve to ask us to prolong this national disgrace 
and inefficiency. Hearst told this conceited, blind bunch that the 
American arms and ammunition furnished the Mexicans were likely 
to be used to kill our own citizens and soldiery, and it came true 
months ago. Any man that will trust a Greaser is not fit to be presi- 
dent of the United States. If the American voters want to start in on 
another four years of such bungling inefficiency as this Wilson and 
Bryan administration, it is enough to thoroughly disgust a patriotic 
man with our politics. 



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CHAPTER II. 

WILSON, THE POLITICIAN 

Prof. Woodrow Wilson and Your Broken Pledges. 

Prof. Wilson, is there a single pledge that you made to the 
voters in 1912 that you and your party have not busted? AVhat are 
your pledges to the American voters good for except to get office 
and pork for the Democratic Party? Here is one of your pledges 
that you and Bryan held up to the American voters to get office, and 
no pledge was ever more measly ignored and suppressed than this 
one after you got on the job : 

"The Constitutional rights of American citizens should protect 
them on our borders and go with them throughout the world, and 
every American citizen residing or having property in any foreign 
country is entitled to and must be given the full protection of the 
United States Government, both for himself and his property." 

Yet you, after you made such a bombastic pledge as this, were 
so unpatriotic as to do all you could for years toward suppressing 
the facts about the ravishing of American women and the killing of 
American citizens down in Mexico, for fear the American people 
would not stand for such outrages and "killings and lootings. Re- 
member, you were elected on a pledge to not stand for such treat- 
ment of our citizens. You were proud that you and your wife came 
from the section of our country that claims to defend the virtue of its 
women. Yet the raping of our women by the despicable Greasers is a 
matter to be suppressed according to your standard of patriotism and 
the lightness with which you disregard that worthless scrap of paper 
known as the Democratic platform. 

"Not only ONE American but HUNDREDS of Americans have 
been butchered in Mexico ; American women have been abused and 
tortured and defiled before being murdered ; little American children 
have been made the victims of beasts and assassins. These American 
men and women and children were tortured and murdered not be- 
cause they had committed any crimes or treasons, but BECAUSE 
THEY WERE AMERICANS. That was their sole offense. They 
died cruel and hideous deaths because they were born on the soil of 
our own dear country and owed allegiance to our own free govern- 
ment. And from first to last there is not an instance on record in 
which one single one of these murders was avenged by the Govern- 
ment to which these poor victims owed allegiance." — N. Y. American^ 
Nov. 8, 1915. 

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United States soldiers were shot down on our own soil by Mex- 
icans and not allowed to return the fire. How would you like to be 
a soldier under such a President? Yet this is President Wilson's 
record. Get what Roosevelt wrote about it in Metropolitan, March, 
1915, and see how he burns him up. And the United States Senate 
demanded information about the treatment of American citizens in 
Mexico and this administration twice refused the Senate the partic- 
ulars about it. See what Hearst's editorials says about it farther on. 
It is a new kind of patriotism to America that twice refused the Senate 
the entitled particulars about the treament of our citizens in Mexico. 
It was outrageous. 

Of President Wilson and Secretary Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt 
said in March, 1915, Metropolitan: "The rape of women, the murder 
of men, and the cruel treatment of little children leave their tepid 
souls unstirred. Insult to the American flag, nameless crimes on 
American women, cause them not one single pulse of emotion. But 
they have wantonly and without the smallest excuse and without the 
smallest benefit to this country shed the blood of twenty American 
soldiers and sailors in order to help put one blood-stained bandit in 
the place of another blood-stained bandit." Particulars about treat- 
ment of our citizens were withheld from the Senate "on the ground 
that it was not compatible with public interest," said Col. Roosevelt. 

Prof. Wilson's Slogan of Preparedness. 

He asks: "How can Americans differ about safety in America?" 
Hearst has been awake to this condition a good many years and has 
tried to wake up Prof. Wilson ever since this minority administration 
existed — especially when the Congressmen were gorging themselves 
with pork and more pork at the expense of our Navy and the United 
States Treasury. Hearst has been preaching preparedness for years 
and years and digging at Mr. Wilson. And now at last, after several 
years in Washington, D. C, Mr. Wilson has discovered that the best 
bait with which to go after the nomination is that we should prepare 
for war. Pork, more pork is the battle-cry that never fails to thrill 
the Democratic Party. 

Hearst has preached preparedness when this Administration sup- 
pressed everything about preparedness it could. Hearst has worked 
like a patriot and Prof. Wilson has worked like a shifty politician 
until he needed a slogan to swing around the circle after the nomina- 
tion at St. Louis, and then preparedness is just the thing. Prof. 
Wilson, why not use your old slogan of 1912, free tolls for American 
ships? Why not try your old slogan of 1912, economy in national 
expenses? Prof. Wilson, why not brag about what a fine Demo- 
cratic tariff you have got? Prof. Wilson cannot stand on the record 
of a single fulfilled pledge that he made to the voters in 1912 to get 
the nomination at St. Louis. Garrison discovered that the less sig- 
nificant a man is in the Cabinet the better he stands with this Admin- 
istration. You cannot take gall and rhetoric and sophistry and bun- 
combe and make an American statesman. 

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Prof. Wilson and Our Navy. 

Prof. Wilson has stood for the tail a-wagging the dog in the 
Navy Department until some of the best men have resigned and our 
Navy has dropped behind. They had to have money to pay old rebel 
debts and for pork, so they saved on the Navy. After they gave us 
the most expensive session of Congress in times of peace, with prac- 
tically no construction work to show for it — only pork, Mr. Wilson 
congratulated them on their work and then went home to stand by 
the professor, and fifty-seven of the gang were counted out. The 
N. Y. World, January 8, says : "Ability has apparently become a crime 
in the Republican Party." Mr. Root, please take notice. The Demo- 
cratic Party is still worse than that. Patriotism has been sadly lack- 
ing in the administration-peanut politicians. How can any man stand 
lor years to see American citizens slaughtered in Mexico and Amer- 
ican women ravished and killed by the Mexicans and then suppress 
such particulars and claim to be an American patriot? It makes any 
man with red blood in him ashamed of such peanut politicians. 

Our Weak Navy. 

''We have not a single battle cruiser. The battle cruiser is a ship 
carrying guns as heavy as those of a battleship and having a speed as 
great as the fastest cruiser. Such a ship can roam the seas singly, 
destroying any enemy weaker than itself it meets and running away 
from any enemy stronger than itself. 

The battle cruiser saved the day for the British at Heliogoland and 
at the Falkland Islands, and won the victory for Admiral Beatty in 
the only battle that has occurred in the North Sea. The German 
battleship Bluecher was sunk in that battle because she was too slow 
to keep up with her consorts, which escaped from the pursuing Eng- 
lish ships. Yet the Bluecher was three knots faster than the best 
armored ship in the United States Navy. 

Even Japan owns four battle cruisers. One of these powerful 
ships could in one battle crush our entire present Pacific fleet, could 
destroy our only drydock in the Philippines, cross the sea and raid 
every unfortified city on the Pacific Coast. 

We have nothing to cope with them in speed. Our slower 
dreadnoughts, even when sent to the Pacific Coast, would be help- 
less against a battle cruiser they could not overtake. Two battle 
cruisers can even menace an extremely powerful fleet of dreadnoughts 
by coming up astern and concentrating their fire always on the last 
ship." — N. Y. American. 

The Truth About Our Weak Navy. 

These conceited, peanut politicians down at Washington will 
not allow men that are really competent and posted about the needs 
of our Navy to publicly express themselves about our naval weak- 
ness. I have talked with men in the Navy and that is the only way 
for the public to get posted about how this measly political gang 

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down at Washington run the thing so as to make themselves as im- 
portant as possible. Rear-Admiral Fiske was down for an address 
on "The Truth About Our Navy" at the Defense Society's luncheon 
in New York City, but the gag was applied by the Administration. 

C. S. Thompson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the 
Defense Society, 305 Fifth Avenue, said of Secretary Daniels' action : 
'Tt is plain that the present Secretary of the Navy is doing all in his 
power to suppress the expert information in order that his program 
alone may be kept before the country." Secretary Daniels was for- 
merly only a country editor and is no expert on naval affairs. But 
he wants to be the whole cheese. 

''Secretary Daniels, reluctantly and under pressure, has pub- 
lished naval statistics which show that the American navy is now 
fourth in strength. 

"When this Administration came into power the American navy 
was, if not actually, at least theoretically, second in strength, and was 
both actually and theoretically a close third. A few months ago 
Secretary Daniels, with the approval of President Wilson, gave out 
a grandiloquent statement to the effect that never had the efficiency 
and strength of the Navy been so developed as during his tenure of 
office. 

"And now, when cornered and made to produce figures, this same 
Secretary Daniels publicly confesses that during his tenure of office 
our navy has actually fallen to fourth place — that there are three 
Powers which could, single-handed, beat down our naval defense and, 
of course, land an invading army which we are not prepared to meet 
and defeat. What do you citizens think of this Secretary of the 
Navy?" — N. Y. American, January 25, 1916. 

"Congress has persisted in ordering warships built that can neither 
successfully fight with nor successfully escape from the faster modern 
warships of England, Germany and Japan. The warships absolutely 
necessary to any successful defense of our coasts against the navy 
of any other first-class Power are warships that are as fast as or faster 
than the warships of the assailants. 

"The first essential factor is the factor of speed. Two modern 
wars have proved this beyond cavil. The Japanese fleet totally de- 
troyed the Russian fleet, in the decisive battle of the war, with but 
little loss to itself, because the Japanese ships in that battle were very 
much faster than the Russian ships. The Japanese ships could run 
rings around the helpless Russian ships, could assume their own dis- 
tance at will, could concentrate their fire on inferior units, could tem- 
porarily withdraw from the range of superior units, and could make 
or refuse to make battle at any point on the line. They cut to pieces 
and sank the whole Russian fleet with hardly a bit of danger to them- 
selves. Speed and victory were shown then and there to be simply 
two words with one meaning. 

"The three naval actions of the present war fought by fleets re- 
sulted in two victories for the British and one for the Germans. In 

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one of these the German ships were speedier than the British ships. 
They destroyed the British squadron with hardly any loss to them- 
selves. The same German fleet was waylaid off the Falkland Islands 
by speedier British ships. They destroyed the German squadron 
with hardly any loss to themselves. In the third engagement, a run- 
ning fight, the faster German ships came off with little damage. The 
slowest German ship, the Bluecher, was shot to pieces and sunk. 
And this comparatively slow German ship, the Bluecher, was faster 
than most, if not all, of our own battleships. And yet lack of enough 
speed was her doom. 

''The heavier the armor on a battleship of any given size, the 
slower that battleship is. With a fatuity little short of criminal, it 
is proposed to build our new battleships with even heavier armor than 
that which now slows down the speed of the ships we have." — N. Y. 
American. 

With Incredible Folly We Build Foreign Navies and Let Ours Wait. 

"The American Navy has no submarines that can go to sea and 
fight. Neither has the American Navy any battle cruisers of the 
modern type. Neither is the American Navy supplied with aero- 
planes and trained fliers. Neither has the American Navy any dirigi- 
ble aircraft. 

"The President and Secretary Daniels and House Leader Kitchin 
insist that the Navy is ready and fit to defend our coasts. That is 
absolutely not so. The officers of the American Navy know as well 
as they know they are alive that our brave sailor men would have no 
chance at all to beat off an attack by a British fleet or by a German 
fleet. They would simply go out to be martyred, and they know it. 
A navy without submarines, without battle cruisers, without air- 
scouts, is as well equipped for battle as a man with one leg and no 
arms is equipped to run a footrace — and no better. 

"Fourteen months ago the Congress authorized the construction 
of the "Schley," a seagoing submarine, of great range and power. 
The "Schley" was to be the first of a fleet of these indispensable 
submersible craft. Secretary Daniels let the contract for the "Schley," 
as ordered by Congress, and in these fourteen months not a stroke 
of work has been done on the vessel. The construction of the "Schley" 
has not even begun, because American plants let American sub- 
marines wait while they build submarines for foreign navies — sub- 
marines, too, which would be used to destroy- American warships if 
we should become involved in conflict over the constant violations 
of our neutral rights on the seas. 

"The Secretary of the Navy deliberately permits American con- 
tractors to put our own Government's naval construction contracts in 
storage, while foreign navies are supplied with submarines, with air- 
craft and with huge supplies of projectiles and explosives. For a 
time the Daniels person was merely a joke. But in grave times such 
as these he is a menace. Because in serious periods an incompetent 

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in authority at home is often far more dangerous than an able enemy 
outside the border. 

"We think that a Secretary of the Navy who permits American 
naval construction and equipment to stand still while American con- 
structors supply foreign navies with ships and weapons that may 
actually be used to destroy our own fleets is a fit subject for sudden 
removal. This is no time to be amused by the antics of a conceited 
popinjay. 

"This is a time for able men to be at the head of the great depart- 
ments upon whose strenuous preparation may at any time hang the 
tremendous issue of victory or defeat in some sudden war, launched 
like a thunderbolt at our coasts and coming from either the East or 
the West, or from both in one combined assault. 

"If we cannot even get the construction of one submarine begun 
in fourteen months under the present Administration, then, in the 
great name of common sense, let us throw out the present Adminis- 
tration and elect a President and a Congressional majority which 
will put the navy in condition to fight on equal terms with any foe. 
And when did American seamen ever ask anything else than an even 
chance of ships and men to go out cheerfully and confidently to fight 
and win?" — N. Y. American, February 19, 1916. 

During the Hudson celebration here whenever the men from 
the English war vessels met our jackies they would say of our war- 
ships : "Your Yankee boats are no good!" Biff! "Take that!" our 
navy boys would say, and there would be a free-for-all fight. The 
American boys would not stand for such slack. So the English had 
to be landed on one side of the Hudson River and the United States 
boys on the other. That is the English opinion of our navy. "It is 
no good." But Democratic politicians shouted economy and then 
crippled the Navy and increased expenses to get porkbarrels. And 
instead of being taken out and chloroformed they were handed a 
bouquet last fall and congratulated for their work — fall of 1914. 

Buffalo Bill and Blustering John Bull. 

At a dinner given in honor of Buffalo Bill by a wealthy English 
lord, he met for the first time socially a number of British officers, 
fresh from India. One of them addressed himself to the scout as 
follows : "I understand you are a Colonel. You Americans are 
blawsted fond of military titles, don't chernow. By gad, sir, we will 
have to come over and give you fellows a good lickin'." "What, 
again?" retorted Buffalo Bill. — From "The Last of the Great Scouts.*"' 



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CHAPTER III. 

How the British Government Deceived the English About 

Abraham Lincoln 

Popular British cartoons of Abraham Lincoln during the rebel 
war are inserted in this book. Such cartoons as these were all the 
rage in England during Lincoln's administration. You can get a 
whole book full of them with historical description: The London 
Punch and Abraham Lincoln; $1 net, postage 10c. Moffat, Yard & 
Co., New York. Get that book and see how unfair and what liars the 
British were about our beloved Abraham Lincoln. 

The treacherous British government was determined that Lin- 
coln's side of our just war should not be heard in England. And when 
Beecher wanted to speak there the authorities stuck up posters tell- 
ing the people that Beecher was the preacher who said : carry on the 
war until hell freezes over and then fight on the ice ; everything to in- 
flame the people against him. So they turned out and hissed and 
hooted and yelled to break up his meetings. Beecher was game and 
would get in a sentence here and another there between yells until the 
British would quiet down enough so he could be heard. His wit and 
arguments and eloquence turned the people in spite of the treacherous 
British government, so that England could not go to war with Lin- 
coln. But it was no fault of Gladstone's nor that treacherous govern- 
ment that Lincoln did not have war with the British too. Beecher 
opened the eyes of so many people there that the treacherous British- 
ers had to cut out their plans for war with the United States. And for 
what devilment they did us, they had to pay us fifteen and a half mil- 
lions in gold. It should have been a hundred millions. More cartoons 
showing how that lying British government deceived the English 
about Lincoln are inserted. 

You High-and-Mighty Crooks of Wall Street, It Is Time 
to Tell You the Truth. 

You and your puppets down at Washington, D. C, and the 
lying press here have backed up that rapacious pirate, John Bull, 
the monster, in the most infernal assassination plot this world has 
seen since Jenghiz Kahn mowed down fifty million white people 
on the plains of Europe. 

In less than four years you big crooks will see that your 
diabolical work has fixed civilization. Then you greedy, lawless 

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devils will believe and tremble (James 2, 19) and your high-handed 
game will be at an end. You will reap as you have sown as sure 
as hell is in Europe. I tell you big devils the Bible is not a lie, 



PUNCH. OR THE LO^fDON CHARIVARI.— December 3. 1864. 




THE FEDERAL PHCENIX. 



and it is time for some one to warn the world of the near and in- 
evitable crash and cataclysm. 

You big crooks and the newspapers know that diabolical 
John Bull is much worse than the Kaiser. Blundering John Bull 

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could not compete with the scientific and efficient German, and 
his rotten civilization founded upon boasted British liberty was 
tottering and John Bull plotted with France since 1906 for war 
on Germany — malignant, revengeful France that got the smash- 
ing she deserved in 1871 and had to cough up what she had 
stolen, Alsace-Lorraine. And John Bull plotted with barbarous 
Russia for war with Germany. Russia, the grave-yard of many small 
nations, has fought many wars to get a southern water outlet, and 
this is one more. That treacherous government of Belgium planned 
with John Bull for this war, and you big crooks and lying papers 
that have howled so about Belgium know all this is true and that the 
Kaiser could not have kept out of this war. For rapacious John 
Bull and revengeful France and barbarous Russia and dare-devil 
Serbia were determined to have war and you liars here know all this. 
You know that the Kaiser would have got war whether he wanted 
war or not. The best man must not be allowed to win in commerce 
and industry if that pirate, John Bull, can get enough nations to 
jump in and crush him and use this greedy, hypocritical nation 
(Isa. lo, 6) as the base of military supplies. You fellows know 
this all is the truth. But the howling sapheads that depend upon 
the lying papers here imagine they are for humanity when they are 
against Germany. Because they are so deceived by England and 
the papers about Belgium's plotting with England and France for 
this war. Sapheads mean all right, but they have not sense enough 
to see how they have been deceived by the papers and the lying pol- 
iticians. 

There is nothing new about this war. It is simply the inane 
cussedness of human nature broken out on a gigantic scale. It is 
the same old rotten complaint, the love of money and the love of 
power and the breaking down of the competitive system, which is 
founded upon the worship of money and the worship of self, the 
devil's own doctrine. 

Your rotten game here of getting millions of others money and 
what others produce is wholesale robbery. The masses will yet do 
unto you what you are so thoroughly and treacherously doing unto 
the public. The competitive system is on its last legs. Blun- 
dering John Bull could not compete with virile Germany. But 
whole civilization is about done for, and I let you know what I 
think of you and your lying, shifty puppets that you have boosted 
into office. Robbing the laborers and the public is what is wrong. 
The slave produces and another man gets the increase. It is the 
capitalistic and competitive system reaching the climax, and it will 
be terriffic. Commercial war will follow this carnage and then in- 
dustrial depression. The crash of civilization is inevitable which in- 
sures the yellow cataclysm, as the earthquake cut off the water supply 
and ensured the destruction of San Francisco by fire. But the fools 
here cannot see that industrial and financial depression will shortly 
follow this jamboree in Europe terminating in the breakdown of law 
and order, thus inviting the yellow race to the slaughter. You greedy 

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hypocrites and liars have prolonged this war and made inevitable the 
obliteration of the white man's civilization. 

Last November Earl Loreburn, former High Chancellor of Eng- 
land, said : "It is no exaggeration to say that if the war continues 
indefinitely, revolution or anarchy will follow. Unless the collective 
sense of mankind prevails before the worst comes, Europe will be 
little better than a wilderness, peopled by old men and women and 
children." — N. Y. American, November 9, 1915. 

Seventeen Million Panama Graft Covered Up by the Democratic 

Administration. President Wilson, Who Is Getting These 

Seventeen Millions? 

"General Goethals told the House Interstate Committee that the 
Joint Land Commission is paying millions for land claims in the 
Canal Zone which are not fairly worth as many thousands. Speci- 
fically, General Goethals declares that nearly $18,000,000 will be paid 
for lands which are not worth $1,000,000. And General Goethals 
volunteered the amazing statement that he had embodied this declara- 
tion in his official report, and that it had been expunged by some- 
body before the report was allowed to go to Congress. 

"Now let the House find out who expunged General Goethals's 
disclosure of this rascality. The public wants to know what Demo- 
cratic department officials happen to be so interested in this looting 
of the treasury down in Panama that they would not even permit 
the complaint of the Governor of the Canal Zone to reach the ears 
of Congress and the ears of the American people." — N. Y. American, 
Feb. 15, 1916. We never had a measlier and rottener set of politi- 
cians running things down at Washington than we now have. Sap- 
heads, you ought to understand why these rotten politicians and 
grafters never have any use for Wm. Randolph Hearst. American 
politics are a disgrace to civilization. Our government is a rotten 
.sham the way it is run, a rotten sham. Hearst is the man that has 
been exposing it for twenty years. All the grafters and thieves and 
crooks and plug-uglies have got it in for Hearst. Even Roosevelt, 
who claims to tote around a heavy load of political righteousness 
fought Hearst with Root. The Roosevelt brand of political slush 
does not impress me two cents worth, though he did serve the black- 
handing gang just right in securing that Panama Canal tract. But 
I was always in favor of the Nicaragua route and opposed to the 
Panama route. Some one must have got millions rake-off by putting 
over that French fiasco on this nation. 

THE BRITISH-GERMAN WAR, BANKRUPTCY, 

REVOLUTION, ANARCHY 

How the After-Clap of this War will Affect the United 

States 

Ydu high and mighty crooks of Wall Street have staggered civ- 
ilization. Your rotten things will soon go to pieces. You do not 

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have to believe it. You can see it before another four years rolls 
around. 

Your opinions were that the Stock Exchange should be closed 
when it was inevitable that England and her allies would have to 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI— Joi« 7, 1862. 




THE ^'SENSATION" STRUGGLE IN AMERICA, 



The Insanity of this British War on Germany. 

buy here by the million or stop the war. Now you all have got in 
your prophecies about the great prosperity that is to hit this country. 
Well, I will explain to you, big crooks and robbers, how it is that the 

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people will soon do unto you what you have so long and thoroughly 
done unto the public. You are not stupid; you can understand that 
import without elucidation. If you feel the need of information 
about what you have done and are doing, ask Hearst for it. He will 
give it gratis as he has always done. 

You are all preaching about the great prosperity that is to 
inundate this nation. Well, your skylights are not clear. The rock- 
iest times this nation ever had — not excepting the rebel war — 
are nothing to what we will have in another four years, I tell you 
in here just what European war will occur prior to the rockiest of 
times — a time of revolution after revolution in one nation after an- 
other because of this war — the coming "time of trouble such as never 
was since there was a nation," — Daniel 12; Matth. 24; 15-22. I tell 
you in here just what European war will immediately precede that 
great tribulation, so that when it comes you will see that I was not 
running a blufif on you. In England before this war, taxes were 
very high and you crooks know that rotten old Hingland was totter- 
ing, shaking. You know that. But now because of the billions of 
war debts those bloody nations will have such taxes that no govern- 
ment ever had and survived to pay the debts. Do you think the 
people there will spend their lives paying taxes — not debts but just 
interest on debts that can never be paid? They will have such taxes 
as were never laid upon any people since the ominous days before 
the French Revolution. It will not be long after this war ends until 
discontent and agitation and socialism will be more rampant than 
ever. So much more of the people's money, income will have to go 
to pay taxes there that they cannot consume as much of their own 
nor our goods as they formerly did. The result will be a keener com- 
petition for the markets of the world than ever. This war will in- 
crease discontent there and make competition keener for world mar- 
kets. And because of the discontent and high European taxes, more 
millions of immigrants than ever will come to America to get away 
from the taxes and to get sOme of the prosperity that will be ours 
for a while after this war stops. In three years after the war ends 
there will be stagnation right here and a glut in the labor market. 
Then you will see times that are hard and really rocky and hunger, 
gloom, unrest, agitation. Then, I say, the people will soon do unto 
you big crooks and grafters what you have so long been doing unto 
the public. Then they will pay you back in your own coin good 
and plenty. This war has made your retribution inevitable. You 
men have been lawless and lawlessness you will reap. You crooks 
and greedy hypocrites and liars are the men that have kept this war 
going and deceived the people here and made it inevitable that the 
white man's civilization will go to pieces. You will see more appall- 
ing signs than any past strikes or this present war inside of four 
years. Out at Youngstown, Ohio, they just had a riotous strike 
demonstration, only a muttering of the storm that is yet to come. 

Until this carnage began European politics were nothing to me. 
Though from a study of the nth chapter of Daniel I had years ago 



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said that Turkey and England Avould go to war about February, 
1915, and that the British war fleet from Chittim (Cyprus) would go 
against the Turk ; but the Turk would not have to beat it out of 
Europe or Constantinople. I also said the Turks would slaughter 
the Armenians (Dan. 11; verses 33, 34, 35). Before Turkey entered 
this war word was sent to some missionaries there that this massacre 
of the Armenians was coming. There are many persons over the 
country who received the printed slip in 1914 before Turkey got into 
this war, stating that the British war fleet of Cyprus (Chittim) would 
go against the Turk, but he would not have to vacate. I said : The 
Turk will stick. England will not shoo him out of Europe or Con- 
stantinople in "How New York City Will Be Destroyed and Civil- 
ization Swept Away." Many persons over the country got that book 
last June, and now they find the interpretation was reliable. Remem- 
ber that manuscript was handed to the linotyper March 25, 1915; 
about the time that John Bull was blowing off through his hat that 
he would have Constantinople by last Easter. But the Sick Man 
proved to be too lively. 

You tricky, lying politicians, pie-grabbers, pork-gourmands, you 
and your bosses, the big crooks, are walking straight right into hell 
with your eyes open. You have got to smell the fire and brimstone 
before you will believe it. I have told you how the revolution is 
coming. Rotten things go to pieces. You will not have long to 
wait to be convinced that rotten things always go to pieces. I say 
it is too late in the day for any cobbler to patch it up now. You may 
as well go fishing as to go cobbling. The damage has been done. It 
cannot be undone. One extreme always follows another. There 
were weeks after this war began in Europe that I never laughed. I 
wrote "A New Argument for Peace" to try to wake up people to 
what they were doing. I may as well have talked to the Avind. 
They were so crazy about the war and the dollars they could make 
out of it. 

Are you so stupid as to not see that Europe will have hard 
times, rocky times, not long after this war. I mean that will affect 
this country. You may as well imagine that water does not seek its 
level as to imagine that you can escape the afterclap of this war. 
Then it will no longer be the public be damned; but the big crooks 
and robbers be damned. You do not need to be told that means 
anarchy by the masses. And the brown man in Japan, with a swelled 
head, will see his chance and have all China back of him by that time. 
I give you the facts in here. 

John Bull Willing for His Ally, Japan, to Later Go to 
War with the United States 

"Japan secretly expanding her navy at top speed," says the N. Y. 
World, January 8, 1916. 

U. S. Senator Phelan says: "By menace and threat Japan has 
given fair notice to the United States, and recently Count Okuma, 
Premier of Japan, in the New York Sun of December 4, 1915, in 

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unmistakable terms, intimated that Japan would hold the United 
States responsible for the inequalities imposed upon its people, and 
fight, if necessary." 

The American people are fools when they cannot see that Japan 
is rushing her navy and now secretly building big transports and 
hustling preparations for war with the United States. And Japan 
is an ally of England and that diabolical British government is anxious 
for Japan to be in shape to go to war with us. Because this nation is 
coming to its senses about a merchant marine and a navy, and John 
Bull is determined that Britannia shall rule the sea. A war between 
Japan and the United States would be an advantage to England later. 
The Japs are shut out of Canada, and New Zealand and Australia the 
same as they are out of this country, or ought to be. But the Japs 
acquiesce to this on the part of the British. The Japs intend to go 
to war with us, and that is why they are insisting that we do for 
them here what Canada and Australia will not do for them and what 
the Japs themselves will not do for foreigners in Japan. But the 
fool sapheads cannot see that Japan means to get war with us, and 
that England is willing for it to come later when this British-German 
war is ended and she is prepared to grab commerce again. You fools 
here, the British still think that the United States should belong to 
England, and that George Washington, the rebel, was at the head 
of a successful insurrection. *Tf England is our friend why has she 
surrounded us with fortified naval stations at St. Johns, Halifax, 
Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, in the Atlantic ; Victoria, Christmas 
Island, Pitcairn, and many others, in the Pacific?" — The Fatherland. 

These British Cartoons of Abraham Lincoln. 

The British will say that is past history. Well, it shows how 
treacherous the Britishers were then and they were just as treacherous 
about our Panama Canal. Our side of the case was not heard in 
England or Europe at all. But instead we were held up as a nation 
that could not be relied upon to keep our treaties. This is how treacher- 
ous the British were to us about two years ago. You sapheads, that 
British government is just as diabolical toward us as it was during the 
rebel war. England has repeatedly broken her treaties with us. Ask 
Senator O'Gorman or Senator Bradley. That Panama Canal deal 
with England was traitorous. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Girls and Women Stripped and Outraged Before the Eyes 

of Their Fathers, Husbands and Brothers and then 

Burned to Death by the Soldiers. 

And the lying newspapers here will not let the American people 
hear of these awful, horrible crimes of those beastly, fiendish bar- 
barians b'='cause it would enrage the Americans against the allies. 

Have you any heart? Then read this story and see how you feel. 
See if there was any reason except the devil's own infernal excuse 
why this nation prolongs this hell in Europe. Old Nero never 
equalled this, yet England tried to keep us from hearing of these 
devils* crimes. 

Read this and see what you think of the papers here that sup- 
press the news and particulars of such hellish crimes against hundreds 
of thousands of women because it would enrage the American people 
against Russia. Yet these lying papers pretend to give you the truth 
about the terrible state of affairs on this bloody earth. 

I will stir up the lying politicians and their papers worse than 
Uncle Tom's Cabin woke up the slave-holders. You shall no longer 
deceive the sapheads here to help England and her allies. 

The Most Hellish Atrocities of This War. 

Much worse than the most exaggerated reports of Belgium and 
yet the papers will not let you hear of the crimes of those barbarians. 

"The savage Cossacks locked whole congregations in the syna- 
gogues to which the frightened creatures had fled for safety. 

"They then stripped and foully outraged the women and girls 
before the eyes of their fathers and husbands and brothers. When 
their lust was satiated they cut the women to pieces with their whips 
and put the men to death with savage tortures. In many instances 
they fastened the poor wretches in the synagogues and burned them 
all to death. 

"Women, old and young, some with babes pressed to their 
bosoms, some about to become mothers, were stripped and knouted 
and outraged in broad day in the public squares, while Russian army 
officers looked on and jeered at the beastly inhumanity of their 
soldiery. 

"Specific details of names, dates and places are given, showing 
that Jewish men were crucified, or covered with oil and burned alive, 
while these incarnate devils laughed and shouted in glee over the 
agonies of the tortured. 

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''Whole villages were driven beneath the blows of the knout to 
wander forth to die of hunger and cold, while their homes were given 
to the flames. 

''Tens of thousands of inoffensive creatures were herded like 
cattle into boxcars, in the depth of the Russian winter, and left to 
freeze and starve and. die. The sick, the feeble, the insane were all 
packed together in these cruel cars of death. 

"The committee's confidential agents estimate that over THREE 
MILLION JEWISH MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN have been 
pillaged, robbed, their homes and crops burned and they themselves 
driven forth to wander in the fields and swamps, there to sufifer and 
to die. 

"It is the most hideous story of human savagery and human suf- 
fering that has ever stained the pages of history — and it is a shame 
and a disgrace that its horrible details have been concealed during all 
these months by the censors of the civilized nations which are 
in alliance with these Russian savages. 

"There have been more inoffensive Jews exposed to death, rob- 
bery, outrage and terror than there are inhabitants in all Belgium. 
Yet the whole world has been made to ring with Belgium's story, 
while the censors and war boards of Christian England and France 
have not permitted a word to be told of the awful miseries endured 
by these millions of defenseless Jewish people under the whips and 
bayonets of the barbarians of the Russian steppes. 

"It is time this conspiracy of silence was broken, time that the 
awful truth was made known, time that the American people learned 
what orgies of lust and frightful cruelty have devastated Galicia and 
Poland, time that Russia's savage government and savage officers 
and savage soldiery were no longer protected from the execration of 
the world because they are in alliance with civilized nations which 
are interested in concealing the barbarities of their allies. 

"The American did not hesitate to speak its indignation over the 
sufferings of the Belgians. Neither will it consent to hide its indigna- 
tion over the infinitely worse sufferings inflicted by the savage Cos- 
sack hordes upon the wretched Jews — and inflicted by express order 
of the Czar's military commanders, with the express approval of the 
Czar himself, in the face of the protests of the Russian Liberals, the 
better class of the Russian people, and the majority of the Russian 
Duma. 

"The world will not hold civilized France and England guiltless 
if they do not bring the necessary pressure to bear upon the Czar to 
end the horrid cruelties practised by his soldiers and his Siberian 
jailers upon defenseless Jewish folk and upon equally defenseless 
prisoners of war. 

"Nor will the world long continue to believe that the cause of 
civilization, liberty and humanity is to be advanced by any effort to 
put intellectual and civilized nations under the heel of an Autocrat 
and a soldiery who shame the name of civilization and of humanity 

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by cruelties and bestialities which would have added infamy even to 
Nero's infamous repute. 

''The whole American people should unite' in a common remon- 
strance against these Russian atrocities, in a common demand that 
Christian England and Christian France restrain the savagery of 
their barbarous allies, in a common movement to protect these in- 
offensive, helpless Jewish men and women and children from further 
spoliation, outrage, torture and murder." — From an editorial in N. Y. 
American, February 2, 1916. The following section of the editorial 
preceded what you have already read: "The American Jewish Com- 
mittee has made public the results of a year's investigation of the 
cruelties inflicted upon the Jews by Russian soldiery. It is an affect- 
ing story, and beside its horrors even the most exaggerated accounts of 
suffering in Belgium fade into insignificance. 

"Among the members of the American Jewish Committee are 
Louis Marshall, Oscar S. Straus, Jacob H. Schiff, Cyrus Adler, Jacob 
H. Hollander, Julian W. Mack, Julius Rosenwald, A. Leoweil, Isaac 
Bernheim and others of the same type. No one will doubt the truth- 
fulness of any report vouched for by such men. The report details 
at length the most horrid cruelties inflicted upon the poor Jews." 

You big crooks and newspapers here claim to be working 
for humanity and yet you suppress the news of the worst horrors of 
the war. You liars know that John Bull plotted to get this infernal 
war and it is that rapacious pirate and monster that keeps the world 
from having peace and you are backing him and Russia in this destruc- 
tion of our civilization. 

This Book Is Pro-Truth and Not Pro-German. 

To be pro-German is to be for Germany just because it is Germany. 
It is never un-American to stand by what the facts prove to be the 
truth, and this book proves to you that since 1906 that treacherous 
British foreign office planned with revengeful France for war on 
Germany and that treacherous Belgian government planned with 
them. That is why Belgium was fortified against Germany and not 
against France or England. It is never un-American to stand by 
what the facts prove and put the blame whefe the facts prove it 
belongs. It is never considered un-American to stand by the truth, 
except by the rotten politicians that believe in over-riding the will of 
the people's primaries. You little popguns down at Washington bet- 
ter wake up to how perilous these times are. 



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CHAPTER V. 

MEXICO 

This Flimsy, Transparent Mexican Policy. 

You have heard a lot about Mexico. No one seems to under- 
stand why this administration allows our citizens to be shot down on 
sight and our flag to be fired upon and trampled in the mud with 
impunity. No one seems to understand why, or they are afraid to 
speak out. Take a look at the facts. The Chicago Tribune states 
some of them: "Mexicans are capable of submitting to government. 
They are not capable of making government. That is to be made for 
them. It is no use to consult fine fancies of what democracy ought to 
be. It is to the purpose only to ask what Mexico is. The Cubans 
are altogether a better human breed than the Mexicans and yet we 
recognize that Cuba can govern itself only under restrictions — that if 
it does not behave it will have armed forces of the United States on 
the island to see that it does behave. And Cuba is comparatively 
quiet and comparatively inoffensive. . . . There was a time when the 
Mexicans despised Americans, feared Texans. The Texans were 
Americans of a different breed. They resented injury and they re- 
sented it quickly and they made it costly." 

Loring M. Black, Jr., a lawyer, of 120 Broadway, New York, has 
stated more facts : "Without recounting the whole of our Mexican 
muddling, what virtue exists in Carranza that did not exist in Huerta? 
What vice existed in Huerta that is not intensified in Carranza? The 
world recognized Huerta because the world has always recognized a 
revolution as a proper method of creating a government. The world 
did this after our revolution ; the world did it after the French revo- 
lution ; the world recognized King Peter of Servia, Cromwell and Yuan 
Shi Kai. There was no excuse for our withholding recognition to 
Huerta, no excuse unless a sinister one of which nothing has been 
brought to light." 

After Huerta, What? Will Mr. Wilson Please Consider This Vital 

Problem? 

"In the thirteen months of the Wilson watchful waiting Huerta 
has shown himself to be the nearest approach to a force for law and 
order that Mexico possessed. Stubborn, autocratic, violent, blood- 
thirsty as he is he has yet done more to protect foreigners — including 
Americans — in the territory he controlled than have the brigand lead- 
ers warring on him with whom the United States has been trafficking 
for his undoing. 

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Go back of the Tampico incident, and the withheld salute which 
President Wilson sought to make our sole complaint against Huerta, 
and you will find the record of insult to the American flag, of violations 
of American women, and of the murders of Americans of both sexes 
and all ages blacker and more execrable in the territory controlled by 
Carranza and Villa — now our diplomatic allies — than in that upon 
which Huerta enforced at least a semblance of civilized order. But 
'Huerta must go !' " — N. Y. American, April 28, 1914. 

Mr. Root says: ''President Wilson intervened in Mexico to aid 
one faction in civil strife against another. He undertook to pull down 
Huerta and set Carranza up in his place. Huerta was in possession. 
He claimed to be the Constitutional President of Mexico. He cer- 
tainly was the de facto President of Alexico. Rightly or wrongly, 
good or bad, he was there. From the north Carranza and a group of 
independent chieftains were endeavoring to pull down the power of 
Huerta. President Wilson took sides with them in pulling down 
that power. 

"Upon what claim of right did this intervention proceed? Not 
to secure respect for American rights ; not to protect the lives or prop- 
erty of our citizens ; not to assert the laws of nations ; not to compel 
observance of the law of humanity. On the contrary, Huerta's was 
the only power in Mexico to which appeal could be made for protection 
of life or property. That was the only power which in fact did protect 
either American or European, or Mexican. It was only within the 
territory where Huerta ruled that comparative peace and order pre- 
vailed. 

"Yet the Government of the United States ignored, condoned, the 
murder of American men and the rape of American women, and de- 
struction of American property and insult to American officers and 
defilement of the American flag, and joined itself to the men who were 
guilty of all these things, to pull down the power of Huerta." 

The Rotten Motive for Intervention. 

Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, just turned loose with a good 
speech, and said : "Except for this (halting, hesitancy and vacilla- 
tion of the present administration), murder and anarchy in Mexico 
would long since have ceased. In Mexico we have been on every 
side except that of the one responsible Mexican government (Huerta). 
We made a hero of the unspeakable Villa ; we allowed him to be sup- 
plied with arms and ammunition which were in part used by his 
bandit armies to take the lives and destroy the property of American 
citizens." 

Whenever you want to get at a man's motive you must scrutinize 
the facts that he cognized at the time of his action and what the 
result of his action would be; look at what he does, and not at his 
pretense, what he says. Now any half-baked American statesman 
know long before the professor got on the job that Mexicans are 
incapable of self-government and that what was needed there 
was a strong man. A man that could rule them. And this adminis- 

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tration knew that Huerta was such a man. Huerta was not a new 
man. Under a former reign he had fully demonstrated that he could 
efficiently suppress uprisings. This administration interfered and 
forced Huerta out in favor of another assassin and ravisher of women 
that could not rule. Villa was already an assassin as well as Huerta. 
But Huerta could rule and Villa could not, and this administration 
went in favor of one that could not rule. Some big money 
did not want , law and order in Mexico yet. That is the reason 
Huerta was forced out in favor of another assassin and ravisher of 
women that could not rule. Did not a certain man say that it was 
because of certain oil interests and how quick the wires got hot 
to boost that man? Big money never cares a damn about American 
lives. This administration was perfectly willing to sacrifice lives of 
our fighting men, not so that the lives of Americans would be safe in 
Mexico, but to force out Huerta on account of unfriendly oil interests. 

I should think that if the American people believe in preparedness, 
then they would want a president that really has some fight in him, 
so that he would not sit still and suppress the facts about the slaugh- 
tering of Americans for fear the people would not stand for it. Our 
citizens are shot down just because they are Americans and have a 
government like China that will not fight, and so the Chinamen are 
also shot down like dogs. I should think that you would want the 
stars and stripes to be a protection to our citizens in Mexico as the flag 
of Germany is to the Germans there. If you do you will have to get 
another president on the job different from this one or Bryan, who is 
dying to get there. Do you want the Mexicans to keep on killing 
Americans for another four years every time there is half a dozen 
Greasers run short of funds or there is a little uprising? If you want 
this uncertainty to end you will have to get another president that 
will go at the Greasers like a cyclone if they molest Americans. In 
the meantime Bryan and his subsidizers should be banished to 
Greaserland. The most treacherous breed on earth a thousand years 
from now will be the fiery, rapacious, lawless Greasers. 

This administration did not want law and order down in Mexico, 
or it would not have forced out of Mexico the man that had once de- 
monstrated that he could rule. Prof. Wilson stood for the ravishing 
of American women and American citizens were slaughtered just be- 
cause they were Americans, and then Prof. Wilson suppressed that 
information all he could last year because he was afraid it would en- 
rage the American people and they would demand the protection of 
American lives and rights in Mexico. What kind of a patriot do you 
call yourself, Professor Woodrow Wilson? You were afraid to let 
the people know the facts for fear they would not stand for your kind 
of patriotism. That is one reason why you suppressed that informa- 
tion, and the Americans were warned to get out of Mexico and lose 
their property and business interests. 

But when Americans went to sea on a ship with ammunition 
enough to blow fifty thousand Germans into hell, Professor Wilson 
would not warn them to keep off of belligerent ships as England did 

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her subjects during the Russian-Japanese war. Americans could 
travel on ships not carrying war supplies and be unmolested by Ger- 
man submarines. But down in Texas American lives by the score 
were taken by the Mexicans, and even the United States soldiers were 
shot down and not allowed to return the fire. So you see, it is not 
American lives that are so dear to the professor that he got bombastic 
and would not omit any word or act to see that British ammunition 
ships are not molested. Because they were carrying the infernal stuff 
from this country without which England would have had to let the 
world have peace months ago. It is not American lives, for Ameri- 
cans could be warned as England did her subjects during the Russian- 
Japanese war to keep off of belligerent ships. It is not American lives 
but British interests that he was looking out for. Prof. Wilson's 
mother was British and all four of his grandparents were British sub- 
jects. And I am sorry that Prof. Wilson himself was not born a 
British subject. 

Since this was written some facts about Mexican oil lands have 
come to my notice. It was to the interests of England (financiers) 
to not have law and order there so that they could get possession of 
Mexican oil lands as they are now doing. And Senator Thomas has 
called attention to the British oil interests. 

This administration did not want law and order down in Mexico. 
Senator Thomas says it is English influence that is back of oil interests 
in Mexico that encourages these uprisings.* 'Tn the Senate at Wash- 
ington Senator Thomas recently made the open charge that the 
English Pearson Syndicate, owned by Lord Cowdray, had the support 
of the Mexican Government, and that the revolution in that unhappy 
country was the direct outgrowth of the plottings of this malign 
English influence. (Congressional Record, January 12, 1916.) Does 
President Wilson fear that if he should venture to intervene in Mexico 
for the protection of American lives and American interests that the 
interests of Lord Cowdray might therefore suffer?" — That financial 
writer, Charles A. Collman, in The Fatherland, February 2, 1916. 

P.S. — Just now^ there is a report that England did not warn her 
subjects to keep off belligerent ships during the Russian-Japanese war. 

Since this book was made up into pages, Villa im^aded the "United 
States and killed a number of our citizens. These last killings have 
fully aroused the temper of the nation and the people demand that 
Villa be captured and dealt with as he deserves. At last this admin- 
istration has acquiesced. But whatever this bungling administration 
does at this late day in regard to the Mexican rebels should not be 
allowed to redeem it. Any men that stand for the slaughtering of 
our citizens as these political guys down at Washington have and 
then suppress the particulars on the ground that it is not compatible 
with public interest deserve to be laid on the shelf with Bill Taft for 
keeps. Read the Metropolitan Magazine for March, 1916, and see 
how^ that conceited little bragger deceives people about the weak con- 
dition of our navy. 



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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARL-Jandaby 11, 




UP A TEEE/^ 

Colonel Bull and the Yankee 'Coon. 

'Coon. "AIR YOV IN ARNEST, COLONEL?" 

COLO.NEL BULI. " I \M." 

'Coos. "DON'T FLRE-l'LL COME DOWN." 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS A COON 



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CHAPTER VI. 

ENGLAND, AND WHAT IS NEUTRALITY? 

That British Stiff, the King, Says: 
"My Empire"; "My People"; "My Armies"; "My Navy." 

The Kaiser says: "Me and God." But the British Stiff leaves 
God out of it. John Bull does it himself. But I tell you it is John 
Bull and the devil that has played hell w^ith civilization. I am going 
to prove it to you lying nev^^spapers here that have deceived and in- 
flamed the people so against Germany, v^rhen it is John Bull that should 
have been kicked in the slats instead of the Kaiser. It is all right 
to crucify the Kaiser; but you must not tell the truth about that in- 
fernal pirate, John Bull, and his gang of assassins and how they 
plotted to get Germany into v^ar so they could all jump on Germany at 
once. And you lying newspapers here, like a pack of curs, help out 
that monster, John Bull. You will not have many years now to wait 
until you and the big crooks here will reap what you have sown as 
sure as there is hell in Europe. You are a heartless, lying gang of 
devils and I tell you the day is not far away when you devils will 
believe what I am firing at you red hot in this book is the eternal 
truth; you will reap what you have sown. Then you measly devils 
will believe and tremble. (James 2, 19.) The Bible is no lie. 

That man is a liar and a hypocrite that says this infernal deal 
this country has handed Germany is neutrality, and I do not care 
how little is his head, and big his conceit and brilliant his rhetoric 
and loud his prate about the law of humanity. I tell you, contempt- 
ible liars, that there is no power in mortal man to save this rotten 
civilization. You need not cuss me. Go kick yourselves. I tell you 
the day is not far away that you will kick yourselves. That will be 
when events demonstrate it to you that you will get the same kind 
of a heartless deal that you have handed Germany. I tell you this 
rotten thing you call civilization is near its inevitable destruction. 
That means all Europe, the white race. There will be events enough 
happen in a few months that will make you howl more than you 
have about the Kaiser. You have deceived the howling sapheads 
here that the London Times call "idiotic Yankees." When John Bull 
sees how easy it is to fool such people I do not blame the British for 
calling them "idiotic Yankees." That is common expression in 
England in speaking of Americans. 

The Devil Is Not in Hell. He Is in New York Working for the 
Allies and Calls it Neutrality. 

The demagogue Roosevelt has done a lot of raving about Ger- 

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many's going through Belgium. But he has been very careful not 
to tell you that England, France and Russia plotted to get war with 
Germany and then all of them jump onto Germany at the same time. 
Because in such a case International Law justifies Germany in 
breaking any treaty to save herself and to violate neutral territory. 
I give the facts and the international law farther on and you can see 
who has lied about this case. ''Idiotic Yankess" is what the English 
call us Americans. The London Times did a few days ago. The 
way the British have fooled you I do not blame them for calling you 
idiotic — especially after the way you have gone ofif half-cocked. You 
cannot read the facts in the back part of this book and deny that 
you have acted like sapheads. Farther on I prove to you that Ger- 
many could not have kept out of this war. England, France and 
Russia were determined to have war. Germany found it out in 191 1 
and got hell-fire ready for them. 

You ignore the facts about England; you ignore international 
law. You can only get one idea through your skulls: War is hell, 
and the Kaiser is to blame for hell. And you are so crazy about the 
war and the dollars you can make out of it that you fools never look 
and see how the Kaiser tried to have nations get along without this 
war. No, you say, see how military Germany was, when she was 
surrounded by nations on all sides of her that were armed to their 
teeth, and in the past the French have marched right through Ger- 
many because she was not military. It was only after Germany be- 
came military that they had to cut it out and not go over in Germany 
to do their fighting. But with you fools European history did not 
begin until Germany invaded Belgium or until Germany gave France 
the thrashing she deserved in 1871. The French used to be the 
great military nation of Europe, and then the French were always 
raising hell with Germany. Fought Germany 30 years at one stretch. 
The French army have been in Berlin over twenty times and the 
German army in Paris only twice. But this rotten sham that you 
call civilization is about done for; I will have the satisfaction of tell- 
ing you how you have been deceived and what fools you are. You 
have done the very thing that will bring the yellow race right into 
your own door yards and houses with bayonets and spears for your 
own lives and your families. The lying devils and tricky politicians 
have forced this nation right into the seething hell of hate, rushing 
our rotten civilization headlong to swift destruction. The only sane 
statesman that has been heard to warn you is William Randolph 
Hearst. But amid the lies and sophistry and greed and hate his in- 
fluence has scarcely been felt. The lying devils deceived the people 
until they became hysterical and insane in their hatred. The fools 
cannot see that the devil rules this world here in the U. S. A. Devil 
means deceiver. But you fools imagine that you are not deceived. 
When the yellow race comes at you then you will see what fools you 
have been. Is Wm. Randolph Heart a fool? He has been warning 
you of the yellow peril for years. Is the Kaiser a fool? "The world 

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will remember too late German's warning about the yellow peril" is 
what Current Opinion recently said. 

You sapheads act just like the fools did before the flood. Ah, 
old Noah is bughouse; there is no flood going to come. Well, they 
found out all right, just as you will find out about the yellow deluge. 
Then you will look upon this administration as the grandest fizzle 
that ever ruled this nation. You cannot take rhetoric and soph- 
istry and buncombe and gall and make an American states- 
man. Remember I tell you the yellow race will not need artillery to 
sweep this country, as rotten as politics and Wall Street are. Just 
wait and you will see. I wrote "A New Argument for Peace" to 
wake you up. The yellow race will show you lying British news- 
papers what this war has made inevitable. A great deal more could 
be said about how soon you will get a demonstration of the nearness 
of the yellow deluge. But you are so conceited and so wise that you 
can just wait until the people are in consternation about the catas- 
trophe. You British papers know how you have been lying about 
the Kaiser and Germany, just to deceive the people here so as to help 
out that devilish pirate, John Bull. High-and-mighty John Bull is 
situated where he will get a much worse downfall than this nation. 
You big crooks and lying pro-British down at Washington, it is use- 
less to stop the war now in hopes of averting the destruction I 
warned you of in October, 1914. Remember, you men will yet say, 
Now is peace and safety; now we have got it fixed so hell will not 
break loose; then sudden destruction will be near, (i Thes. 5.) You 
devils that have been deceiving the people here have just about got 
to the end of your ropes. But you may as well keep ahead at your 
infernal game or bust your boilers trying to. There is no power 
that can save civilization now. It cannot be done. It is simply the 
inane cussedness of human nature. War and poverty are the direct 
result of worshipping money and self; money and individualism. 
Fundamentally this is what is wrong with civilization. Society is 
rotten with mammonism and individualism, self. The worship of 
money and the worship of self is what ails America and Europe. It 
is incurable. 

What Is Neutrality? 

Our Ambassador to Germany during our war with Spain, 
Andrew D. White, said : "The American Consul at Hamburg having 
notified me that a Spanish vessel, supposed to be loaded with arms 
for use against us in Cuba, was about to leave that port, I hastened 
to the Foreign Oflice and urged that vigorous steps be taken, with 
the result that the vessel, which in the meantime had left Hamburg, 
was overhauled and searched at the mouth of the Elbe. The German 
Government might easily have pleaded, in answer to my request, 
that the American Government had generally shown itself opposed 
to any such interference with the shipment of small arms to belliger- 
ents, and had contended that it was not obliged to search vessels to 
find such contraband of war." — From his Autobiography. 

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The Wilson 1913 Brand of Neutrality Was O. K. 
Who Is the Hypocrite Now? 

*'On August 2y, 1913, the President, addressing Congress on the 
attitude of the United States toward the two governments struggling 
for existence in Mexico, declared that the forbidding of the exporta- 
tion of arms or ammunition of war of any kind from the United States 
to any part of Mexico was to 'follow the best practice of nations in 
the matter of neutrality.' The President then deemed it his duty *to 
see to it that neither side to the struggle now going on in Mexico 
receive any assistance from this side the border.' *We cannot,' he 
continued, 'in the circumstances be the partisans of either party to 
the contest.' Thus we have the word of the President that an em- 
bargo on arms is in line with 'the best practice of nations in the 
matter of neutrality.' It would be an astonishing thing if what in 
1913 was in accordance with 'the best practice of nations' were not 
in accord with it in 1915. 

"It is asserted that, whatever action it might have been proper 
for the United States to take at the beginning of the war, it would be 
a violation of our neutrality to make any change in our policy now. 
This feeble pretense might be indulged as the last-ditch argument 
of a criminal lawyer, but it is difficult to restrain the impatience at 
seeing it invoked, as it has been invoked, by high officials of the 
United States Government. Has the United States ever before held 
that an embargo on the exportation of arms during the progress of 
the war was a violation of its neutrality? On the contrary, it has 
repeatedly placed embargoes and removed embargoes, and made 
changes in its laws of neutrality, during the progress of wars, never 
dreaming that it was departing from its neutrality." — From "The 
Exportation of Arms and Munitions of War," by William Bayard 
Hale. 

Germany Is Handed a Diabolical Brand of Neutrality by the 
American Hypocrites. 

In the backwoods a neighbor sang out to a woman, "Say, your 
ole man is in a fight with a bear out there." The woman answered : 
"Well, I do not care which licks." And she refused to help either 
her husband or the bear. Now that was real neutrality. When you 
insist upon supplying to one side what enables it to carry on the war 
you are not neutral. To be neutral you must not supply to either 
side the help without which it could not carry on the war. But be- 
cause you have made this country the base of supplies for John Bull 
and his varigated, revengeful and barbarous allies to blow Germans 
into hell, you insist that to be neutral you have got to keep on being 
unneutral. The Mexicans might just as well say that they have got 
to keep on killing Americans or they cannot be rebels. It is the same 
infernal logic; the devil's own monstrous lie; diabolic sophistry. 
Now you British maniacs that cuss the Kaiser in your sleep, let out 
your howls about "nagging" the professor. There is no god on 
wheels down at Washington that we must not tell the truth. It is 

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all right to crucify the Kaiser but you must not roast John Bull and 
his gang. Every available epithet has been and is being hurled at 
the Germans and the Kaiser. Two can play at the same game. For 
this is not barbarous Russia — though you are helping Russia. 

Pro-British Here, a Disgrace to America. 

"We are utterly tired of the pusillanimous and cowardly attitude 
of men and newspapers who stigmatize as pro-German those Ameri- 
can men and newspapers who resent British raids upon our neutral 
rights and British insolence toward our commerce on the high seas, 
and British contempt for our country and our Government. 

"It has indeed come to a fine pass if an American cannot speak 
out in defense and in support of his own country's rights and honor 
without being vituperated by hybrid Americans who are more foreign 
than they are American in their sympathies, who are actually willing 
to see their own country humiliated and wronged if that will advance 
the domination and naval success of England." — N. Y. American. 

There is a breed of Americans that glory in it that their Tory 
ancestors in this country during the Revolutionary war stood up for 
old rotten King Gorg and opposed George Washington. It is against 
the law to tar and feather them. The devil is not in hell ; he is 

^ m New York City working for Russia and John Bull and calls it 

" neutrality. 

Cuss the Kaiser, You Liars. 

Blundering John Bull could not compete with the scientific and 
efficient German, and his rotten civilization founded upon glorious 
British liberty was tottering; revengeful France was sore because 
she got the smashing she deserved in 1871, and had to cough up 
what she had stolen, Alsace-Loraine ; barbarous Russia, the graveyard 
of small nations, has fought many wars to get a water outlet on 
the south, and that is why the Czar backed up dare-devil Serbia to 
start this war. And that treacherous Belgian Government plotted 
with England about this war and years ago prepared for this war 
by fortifying next to Germany. Even in British Parliament they 
years before this war began suspected that Grey was plotting with 
France for war on Germany and repeatedly questioned Grey if there 
was not a secret agreement to send men to fight with France against 
some other nation. But the sapheads here know nothing about the 
deep-laid plots of Sir Edward Grey even after he has confessed. 

You big crooks and measly liars well know that England and 
France and Russia planned long before 191 1 to sometime go to war 
with Germany. You well know that Grey has acknowledged that 
England and France planned to go to war with Germany before 
Belgium was invaded and whether Belgium was invaded or not. 
That is all explained in this book for the benefit of the sapheads 
that are so crazy about this war and the dollars they can make out 
of it. You crooks and liars know all about this infernal assassina- 
tion plot of John Bull's and you go ahead and help that insolent, ruth- 

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less, rapacious pirate in a war that now has made it inevitable that 
the white man's civilization will go to pieces. Then the yellow race 
will only need bayonets and spears to destroy the white race. The 
simpler the plan the more effective it will be. This nation has acted 
like it was crazy drunk, rushed right along feeding this hell in 
Europe, decimating, pauperizing and burdening Europe with such 
debts that has made sure the swift destruction of the white race. 
But the revolutions have got to start before you fools can see any- 
thing ominous and the yellow hordes have got to come at you with 
bayonets before you will believe there is any danger. Stupid hu- 
manity will get the convincing of their lives before another four 
years roll around. These are the days of the unexpected, of discon- 
tent and sudden unheavals. If you feel like cussing me go butt your 
fool heads against the Flatiron Building; I tried to stir you up by 
writing "A New Argument for Peace" in September, 1914. Do not 
blame me for your being a fool. Go out to your back-doors and take 
a good kick at yourselves. 

Cuss the Kaiser, you pro-British maniacs. I prove to you that 
Grey has confessed that since 1906 England plotted with France for 
war on Germany. I prove to you that France plotted with Russia 
for war on Germany. I prove to you that Russia was back of Serbia 
and Serbia was to start the scrap. Yes, the Czar said settle this trou- 
ble between Austria and Serbia at the Hague. But the Czar kept 
right on mobilizing after Austria offered to arbitrate. If you mortal 
enemy said to you: "O, I will arbitrate this trouble with you," but 
your enemy kept right on pulling his gun, you would tumble to it 
that his offer to arbitrate was a damned sham to get you. That is 
the Czar's kind of offer to arbitrate down at the Hague that the Allies 
tell you so much about. That is the sham offer the Czar asked the 
Kaiser to accept while he was pulling his gun, mobilizing. The 
Russian brute and liar was simply sparring for time to fully mobilize. 
Germany notified the brute to stop mobilizing in twelve hours or 
there would be war. The Czar forged right ahead for war and he 
got it. He went right ahead when he knew that it meant war with 
Germany. 

Do you think that he would butt into war with Germany with 
no one to help? Are you so stupid as to believe that the Czar would 
forge ahead when the Kaiser notified him that unless he stopped in 
twelve hours there would be war? Are you so blind as to believe 
the Czar would ram ahead into war with Germany unless France 
was to chip in? And are you so stupid as to imagine that the French 
would go to war with Germany when the French Navy was in the 
Mediterranean Sea and the German Navy could come at the unpro- 
tected coast of France? Are you such a fool as to imagine that 
France would go to war with Germany unless England was to pro- 
tect the French coast? Churchill was connected with the British 
Navy and has boasted that the British Navy had been for five years 
preparing for war with Germany. Yet lying John Bull gets off that 
old gag that he was not prepared. Before there was any war Grey 

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threatened to resign (July 30th) unless England would back up 
France and Russia in this war. Yet that very day he made public a 
proposal for arbitration between Austria and Serbia; but he did not 
make public his threat to resign unless England went to war with 
Germany just because France and Russia were intending to. All 
this is proved from official papers that you liars cannot deny. Pub- 
lically Grey was hypocritically shamming for peace; but officially he 
was diabolically trying his best to force war. You get the proof and 
particulars farther on, you sapheads. Yet the British get off that 
gag that they were not prepared for the war to make you fools imag- 
ine they did not want this war, when their prominent officials had 
been plotting for this war for years. That British preacher, Rev. Dr. 
R. J. Campbell, said in the N. Y. American, December 20, 1915, that: 
"Sir Edward Grey was an efficient cause of the terrible fact that we 
are at war to-day, that tens of thousands of our sons and brothers 
have been slain and hundreds of thousands maimed for life, that mul- 
titudes of homes have been plunged into mourning." 

It was made clear to Germany in 191 1 by the way England, to 
the verge of war, backed up France in breaking that treaty, The Act 
of Algeciras, signed by France and Germany in 1909, that war with 
England and France was inevitable. Then England agreed to pro- 
tect the French coast with the British Navy and the French Navy 
was sent into the Mediterranean. France discussed a 50 per cent, in- 
crease in her army and Russia was rushing her military plans and 
loans and military roads. Even in the British Parliament they sus- 
pected England was to back up France in war on Germany and repeat- 
edly questioned Grey about it. Germany saw that it was going to 
be a case of fight and very wisely got a double shuffle on her prepara- 
tions for war. 

Last spring John Bull boasted that he was going to take Con- 
stantinople by Easter. John Bull is always blowing off through his 
hat. You all remember how they talked of the way Russia was going 
to roll right over on top of Germany like an army of steam rollers. 
Yes, soon after this war started the British in London bet that they 
would have Germany whipped in three months. They never expected 
Germany to make the Russian steam rollers run backwards instead 
of forward. They were not expecting Germany to put it over the 
Russians so easy. They were expecting the big Russian bear to just 
eat Germany. Instead of that, Germany took some big chunks out 
of Russia. England was not prepared for such unexpected turns of 
the war. England plotted for years to get this war, but it has not 
gone the way John Bull and his pal, the Russian bear, planned. 

No, the British were not prepared for that campaign against 
Constantinople and the Dardanelles, the way it turned out. John Bull 
barked up the wrong tree at a sick man, and the sick fellow came 
down the tree and accommodated him and bumptious John had to 
beat it. Every time John Bull blunders and gets a fresh blister 
raised on his bumptiousness, he rolls up his eyes and says, *T was not 
prepared." No, they were not prepared for the German siege guns 
to lift the forts into the air. 

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CHAPTER VII. 

HEARST IS THE MAN 

This Nation Should Have Heeded Mr. Hearst. — Just Read 
This Book Half Through and See 

William Randolph Hearst is a loyal, patriotic American and 
would never allow the British flag to be fastened to his backbone. 
Nor would the British flag fly over the White House if Hearst were 
in it. Bryan with his incurable grouches is no more fit to be our 
President than a senile old man is to fight Moran or Willard. 

Hearst is a fighter and he knows how to do things and how to 
get things done. He is the man that we should have had in the White 
House since March 4, 1913. Then John Bull and Wall Street would 
not have been allowed to play hell with civilization. It is dishearten- 
ing to a man that works for the best interests of the country to see 
what a fizzle — what a lamentable fiasco this conceited professor has 
made of the job. It is awful, and shortsighted humanity will only 
have a short time to wait and see what the prolongation of this war 
by this nation has made inevitable. Then you people that have backed 
this pirate, John Bull, in his war on Germany will see that you should 
have been guided by love and kindness instead of greed and hate. 
The world has yet to learn that love from man to man and justice is 
the only safe foundation for civilization. But our civilization is 
founded upon money and selfishness, money and self. We trust in 
riches. Men will not believe it until the crash comes; but this war 
has made inevitable the fall of our civilization as explained herein. 

Hearst is the man that we should have had in the White House 
during these perilous times. Just read this book half way through 
and see if it is not plain to you that this nation should have listened 
to the advice that Mr. Hearst gave the country. You can reason. 
Just read half of the book and see if Hearst is not the man that you 
should have heeded instead of Wilson or Roosevelt or Root or Bryan. 
Just read and reason and see whether I have told you the truth about 
Hearst and the rotten snobs. 

The rotten politicians, the big looters, the grafters and pork- 
grabbers hate that loyal, patriotic American, Wm. Randolph Hearst. 
Loyal Americans, Wm. Jennings Bryan has an incurable grouch at 
Mr. Hearst. Mr. Hearst supported Bryan in his races for the presi- 
dency two different times. Bryan called to see Mr. Hearst for his 
support the third time in a presidential race. But Mr. Hearst thought 
that Bryan had hodooed the Democratic party long enough and 
would not support him again. Bryan wants to be the perpetual hodoo 
of the Democratic party. Hence his incurable grouch at Mr. Hearst. 

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Read this book through and see what you then think of those who 
hate Mr. Hearst. That pro-German publication, "The Fatherland/* 
that dotes on Bryan, better kick that old granny overboard and work 
for an American that is patriotic enough to not stand for the slaughter- 
ing of American citizens by the Greasers as hodoo Bryan did, after he 
put that plank in the democratic platform at Baltimore, demanding the 
protection of Americans by the National Government. I have no 
earthly use for the measly patriots that suppress such particulars as 
Bryan did while Secretary of State. Read this book half way through 
and you will be convinced that we should have stood by that loyal, 
patriotic American, Wm. Randolph Hearst instead of the conceited 
professor who let his gall slip up where his honor should have been 
down at Baltimore. You can tell what Hearst stands for by the kind 
of men that knife him. 

Read the editorials from that Loj^al American daily, the New 
York "American" which are inserted in tliis book. If these discussions 
from Hearst's paper are sane and wise then Wilsonism is pretense 
and folly. Read and reason and you will see that loyal Americanism 
is a very different article from shifty Wilsonism. 

An American Statesman. 
The Man We Need in Place of Woodrow Wilson. 

There has never been a time that this nation should have been 
ruled by love and justice instead of greed and hate more than during 
this war. Never have we needed a man in the White House with an 
American backbone like Wm. Randolph Hearst more than since 
March, 1913. "In 1916 we will make the Democratic pluguglies look 
like a scaly set. We propose to show what influence always knifed 
Wm. Randolph Hearst." — From "A New Argument For Peace." 
Hearst's enemies, the rotten influences, get ripped up right in this 
book for once. If Hearst had been in the White House this war 
Avould have ended a year ago. 

A conceited theorist put the country industrially and financially 
on the bum by turning the balance of trade against us. So that when 
John Bull got this war going the country was in such a demoralized 
condition industrially and financially that we had to feed this hell in 
Europe to better our own economic condition. We had to furnish 
the implements to keep that hell going because we were on the bum 
by a fool tariff — a tariff that Hearst had always opposed because it 
eliminated reprocity and the American workman. 

But an honest man like Wm. Randolph Hearst, who is such a 
fighter for justice, progress and real Americanism, stands no more 
show in politics than a snowball in hell. He stands for honest, clean 
politics. That is enough to damn him with the crooks, big and little, 
and the measly politicians and grafters. 

Bryan, Clark, Wilson, Cummings, Hughes 

You American sapheads, what is the good of primaries when the 
rotten politicians and demagogues ignore them and override them as 

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they did in 1912. And yet these same politicians claim to be in 
favor of allowing the people to say whom they want. Their actions 
prove that they are liars. Bryan was instructed by the men in Ne- 
braska to vote and work for Clark. But he has such an incurable 
grouch at Hearst that he would not do it. But worked for Wall Street 
and Wilson and Bryan. If the choice of the primaries had been al- 
lowed to be nominated at Baltimore, Clark would have got the nomi- 
nation and not Wilson. That shows how much Wilson respects the 
primaries. 

What Are Primaries For? 

Primaries are for the people to decide whom they want. Yet 
Bryan went to Baltimore and ignored the primaries of the State of 
Nebraska. That is how much Wilson and Bryan believe in primaries. 
And the Republican politicians did the same thing at Chicago. The 
primaries of 1912 were a farce with the gang of pohticians that dominate 
our nation. But they are so exalted that you must not expose them. 
What is printer's ink for if you cannot tell the truth about the slip- 
pery politicians that ignore our primary laws? This is not Russia. 
Is that loyal Americanism to disregard the will of the people? Read 
what Wm. Randolph Hearst has to say about it, if you imagine it 
is. Such Americanism is a farce. Wm. Randolph Hearst stands 
for real Americanism and not these rotten politicians that defy our 
primary laws. Rotten politics are a disgrace to our form of govern- 
ment. 

It is a fine lot of rotten politicians and demagogues that infests 
this nation, and disregards the will of the people as the Republicans 
and Democrats did in 1912. Taft deserved what he got and Wilson 
and Bryan deserve what Taft got for what they did at Baltimore. 
Clark fell down to the big interests by refusing to stand for the recall 
of judges and their decisions. Many judges have to buy their jobs 
from some rotten politician and it is time to jack them up. But 
the people wanted Clark and Roosevelt, and since the people 
are intended to have the say, those two men should have been allowed 
to run. No Republicans who staid in the party after they robbed 
Roosevelt is worthy of the votes of loyal Americans. Put up Hughes ; 
he has always been very considerate of Wall Street and the railroads. 
Roosevelt fought Hearst. Yet when he wanted to break back into 
the White House he took measures that Hearst had advocated for 
years and Perkins for his strong-arm man and Prendergast for his 
jimmy; Prendergast that broke his written campaign pledge to the 
N. Y. City voters. Yet Roosevelt says he believes in the recall, but 
did not jack up his jimmy. It is a choice lot of demagogues and 
political guys that infests us for our votes. They have made it a 
government of politicians and bumcombe-tooters, by demagogues, for 
pork and the railroads and Wall Street and England. Read "The 
Political New Testament for Loyal ^Americans." 

Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, Democrat. — The New York 
American has been the only newspaper published in New York which 
has been absolutely neutral since this European war began. 

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CHAPTER VIII. 
Anti-Suffragettes and the Devil 

You anti-suffragettes and the devil, your excuse for opposing 
woman suffrage is that woman's place is at home. You and the devil 
are so concerned about woman's staying at home on election day ; but 
all the rest of the year women can go by millions into factories, shops 
and offices and never go home except to roost, and you and the devil 
never lament anything about their not being at home. Yet it is per- 
fectly heart-breaking to you and the devil if these women do not stay 
at home on election day. Yours and the devil's assertion that woman' s 
place is at home is not argument but sophistry. You are not sincere ; 
you are not worried about the homes. You and the devil oppose 
women suffrage for the same reason, and you are hard-up for an ex- 
cuse, pretext. 

Another one of your lies is that women do not want to vote. 
In Chicago they said women did not want to vote. But when elec- 
tion day came around they showed them whether or not they wanted 
to vote, and that is just what the devil and the rotten influences here 
in New York are afraid the women will do if they get the chance. 
The rotten grafters that rob the schools know that if women vote they 
would get kicked out. In a woman suffrage state when a rotten 
politician wants to express himself about woman suffrage he has to 
go off behind the barn where no one will hear him. The devil means 
deceiver, bamboozler, and he hoists any old deception that enables 
him to get money without the sweat of his brow and to domineer over 
women like a beast. Child-slavers do not believe in woman suffrage ; 
white-slavers do not believe in woman suffrage. The crooks of Wall 
Street do not believe in woman's voting. The useless rich do not be- 
lieve in woman's voting. The Associate Charities of New York that 
take over 20 per cent, of the funds for their own pockets, do not believe 
in woman's voting. The politicians who hinder widows pensions do 
not believe in woman's voting. If there is a place in the United 
States where they care less for women than New York City it is 
Utah ; yet they allow women to vote in Utah. You noisy hens here 
that oppose it cannot show that a single state has been hurt by wom- 
an suffrage. 

You remember the suffragettes called on Mr. Wilson, but he 
could not discuss woman suffrage, because it was not in that sacred 
document, the democratic platform. Oh, that document is so sacred. 
That did sound so brilliant and statesmanlike; it may be it was the 
intellectual punch of a statesman ; but to me it looked like the duck 
used by shifty shysters — a cheap trick — especially when the demo- 

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cratic platform stood for free tolls, which he fought so hard to treach- 
erously repeal. Then that document had nothing sacred about it. 
If President Wilson really is for woman suffrage as reported, he could 
show it by spurring up Congress to do something about it now. 

**The best evidence of the results of woman suffrage is that drawn 
from the experience of the States in which it is an established fact. 
We can best judge of the future from the past, and though in New 
York suffrage is a matter of the future — we hope immediate future — 
it is a matter of accepted history in twelve of our sister common- 
wealths. 

Governor Capper, of Kansas, says of the effects of equal suffrage 
in his State : 

'The extension of equal suffrage to the women of Kansas has 
had immediate effect for good. It has impelled all political parties 
to include in their programmes and platforms humanitarian projects 
and moral issues which previously they had ignored. It has made 
imperative a more careful selection of nominees. The immediate 
passage of wise, humane and beneficial laws for the safeguarding of 
women and children and the betterment of conditions of living, 
which followed the adoption of equal suffrage laws in Kansas, af- 
fords convincing proof that the enfranchising of American women 
is a most important step in the advancement of State and national 
progress/ 

The testimony of Governor Carlson, of Colorado, is of particular 
pertinence because Colorado, like New York, is largely doniinated 
politically by its chief city. Governor Carlson says : 

*To women is entrusted the business of building homes and 
rearing children. It is a truism that the first years of a child's life 
are the most impressionable, and that the foundation of future right 
living should be laid then. Obviously a woman to whom the term 
'good citizenship' is meaningless cannot teach it. The responsibility 
of the vote, by arousing an intelligent interest in affairs of govern- 
ment, has proved of incalculable value to women, and through them 
to children who are being trained to live in the world and render 
service to it." — N. Y. American. 

Gertrude Atherton, the novelist, said: "In three short years the 
women of California have had the ballot they have done wonderful 
things. They have instituted the minimum wage law, which has been 
a blessing to thousands of working women. They have been instru- 
mental in getting better child labor laws introduced. Through the 
women of California mothers' pension bills were passed, workmen's 
compensation bills, better school laws and City Mother elected." — 
N. Y. American. 

The Brooklyn Slaves 

By Sonia Ureles in N. Y. American. 

Anti-Suffragettes, What Are You Doing to Help These Poor Girls? 

*T tell you we must either go on strike or fling ourselves into the 
river. Conditions in our shops are desperate. We are not treated 

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like free human beings, but like slaves. And the greatest sufferers are 
we girls who have been active in the union. We are being hounded 
from shop to shop by our employers, and starved into submission." 

The headquarters of the Misses' and Children's Dressmakers' 
Union at No. 359 Rockaway avenue, was packed to overflowing with 
excited girls. The speaker, a slim little shop-girl whose name must be 
withheld because the publishing of it might bring down further perse- 
cution from her employers, turned to me, the words stumbling pas- 
sionately from her quivering lips. 

"You want to know why we are preparing to strike?'*' she de- 
manded. "Well, ril tell you. Our weekly wages average $3.00. Is 
that enough on which a girl can support herself." And the fastest 
worker in the shop can't average more. Our employers have a sys- 
tem of never allowing a girl's wage to exceed $6.00 a week. 

Average Wage $3.00 a Week. 

"A girl can work her fingers to the bone, but all her pay envelope 
will hold the end of the week will be $6.00. Don't forget, that is the 
wage of the best and fastest worker. And the seasons are so short 
that what we really average is $3.00 a week. 

"And that isn't all. Aside from being underpaid and overworked, 
we are cursed at, maltreated and often flung down a flight of stairs by 
way of being discharged. 

"Should another girl in the shop protest at the treatment, she is 
discharged without a moment's notice. 

"If we are five minutes late it is deducted from our wages. And 
should it happen that a girl is late twice in succession, she is dis- 
charged altogether. 

"I am one of the fastest workers in my shop, yet for the past 
three months my bosses have hounded me from one shop to another 
for the simple reason that I have shown an active interest in my 
union. 

Agitators Blacklisted. 

"I have shown an interest in the welfare of the other girls. There- 
fore I have been blacklisted by a devilish system that exists among 
the employers. There have been moments in the last few weeks when 
I have contemplated suicide. Why? Because I am starving. Again 
and again I have gone to my boss and begged for work, but he always 
turns me away with a laugh. 'Let the union find work for you,' he 
tells me. 

"It is the same in other shops where I apply. The bosses laugh, 
show me deliberately why they are doing it, and turn me away. They 
are trying to starve me into eating out of their hands. There are 
hundreds of girls in my position. Personally, I'll end it all in the river 
rather than give in." 

So desperate are conditions in the misses' and children's dress- 
making industry that 30,000 girls who live in Brooklyn are preparing 

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to go on strike to-morrow. Of these 30,000 more than 10,000 are em- 
ployed in shops in their home borough. 

Promises Broken. 

In 1912 the manufacturers signed a protocol with the Misses' 
and Children's Dressmakers' Union, in which they agred upon a mini- 
mum wage scale, extra pay for overtime and night work, and a fifty- 
hour week. They also agreed to recognize the union as an organized 
body and to observe its rights. 

Since the signing of the protocol, however, the manufacturers 
have not lived up to their agreement in any way. Not only have they 
not recognized the union as an organized body, but they have perse- 
cuted the individual leaders and active members in a way that finally 
roused the entire industry to a wild state of indignation. 

One way the employer has of ferreting out the girls who take 
interest in their union is having them shadowed as they go to a meet- 
ing. The next day he reads off the list of names to the girls, telling 
each one that she has been seen at the meeting and that, unless she 
mends her ways, she can expect discharge. 

Such are the abuses that the girls are undergoing in the industry 
that, though many of them have parents and families dependent on 
them, they are eager to make any sacrifice in order to strengthen their 
standing as a body. 

"You cannot know what degradation we are forced to undergo," 
Mrs. Bessie Pufif, of No. 365 Osborne street, told me. "1 am a widow, 
with two children and an old mother dependent on me. For the past 
four years I've been working in a shop where conditions are simply 
nerve-wrecking. 

''AH I earn is six dollars a week. On that I am supporting my 
children and my mother. And I would not be earning that except for 
the fact that I work overtime. If I exceed the usual amount of work 
and ask for the difference, my boss tells me that he has cut down 
prices for that week. I dare not demur for fear of losing even this 
little. 

''And the treatment accorded us is worse than that of prisoners. 
All day long we are riveted to our machine, and dare not lift our heads 
for fear of being discharged or abused. We are not allowed even to 
speak to one another. There is nothing else for us to do now but 
strike. Things are getting so that we won''t be able to keep body 
and soul together." 

The agreement signed by the employers in 1912, declared H. 
Greenberg, manager for the girls yesterday, stipulated that no em- 
ployer was to discharge a girl without some definite reason. But 
from the very first this clause was violated. 

"To show how an employer abuses his help and under what a 
regime the girls are working, here is a case of a little girl who was 
discharged yesterday," said Mr. Greenberg. 

"This girl is a good, steady worker and thoroughly intelligent. 
As she is a piece-worker, she left her shop a half hour before six in 

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order to distribute circulars acquainting other girls at the shops of a 
meeting to held in the evening. 

*'The next day her employer searched her clothes and found a 
few circulars in her mufif. Without further excuse, he ordered her 
from the shop. And, mind, that shop is supposed to be under agree- 
ment to recognize the rights of the union." 

A very pathetic, case is that of two little sisters whose widowed 
mother is bedridden. These girls each earn $3 a week. On that they 
support themselves and their mother. 

How About These Distressed American Girls? 

All sorts of persons — many of them persons of wealth — are busy 
in collecting money and food and clothing for Belgian, Servian and 
Polish children. We say am.en to that, too. 

But how about thousands of young American girls right here at 
home? Don't they deserve as much sympathy and as much cash help 
as Belgian girls, or Polish girls, or Servian girls? Is there no charity 
for girls at home — good girls, too, who work their fingers to the bone, 
poor things, to get in a week less than many of you spend for a dinner 
or for a couple of seats at the night's play? 

Yes, friends, how about these American Girls? Is there no sym- 
pathy, no money, no help for them? Seven thousand of them are in 
sore distress right over in Brooklyn. 

Brooklyn does not sound as romantic as Servia, for instance. 
Still Brooklyn working girls can get just as cold and just as hungry 
as Servian war refugees. And they can suffer and can die, too, good 
people, right in Brooklyn and New York. Let us help our own vic- 
tims of social war a little before giving all we have to distant victims 
of the other sort of war. Let's help these girls over in Brooklyn — 
poor things. 

You women get busy with aid and comfort for American girls 
who need help and deserve help in their hard uphill fight to secure 
a living wage for the most arduous and exacting employment that 
ever ground flesh and blood into profits and dividends. — N. Y. Ameri- 
can, February 19, 1916. 

Two Millions at Child Labor 
And 895,000 Are Between Ages 10 and 13, Says Dr. Adler. 

The Rev. Dr. James V. Chalmers, speaking in Holy Trinity 
Church, said : "We need in this country laws to compel children to 
become educated and fitted for life. But we also need laws to com- 
pel fathers and mothers to work and do their share. Hundreds of 
thousands of fathers and mothers to-day are leaning on their children 
for support. 

Criticizes Parents. 

"Look at the loafers on the street corners. Where do you find 
their children? Working, of course — and giving every cent they 

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earn to their parents. There are too many loafers in America to-day, 
and they need laws to compel them to go to work. If all the loafers 
were working they would be no need for mill and factory workers to 
look to the child as a worker. 

"Child labor is a term which is not to be tolerated in America. 
You cannot put a child and labor together and have a strong nation. 
The State should be the protector and the home should be the guar- 
dian. No State, no house, no industry has the right to rob the child 
of its childhood. It is time America took stricter steps to protect its 
children." — N. Y. American. 

Such outrageous conditions as these are a disgrace to American 
civilization. It is time that women were demanding the ballot. 

Immigration After This War. 

Many poor people will want to come to us after this British- 
German war. Where colonies are formed and the immigrants do not 
locate in cities but in a colony we can safely admit such without re- 
strictions that are now enforced. That is, provided they are not 
criminals or defectives. The time should be extended so we can de- 
port foreign criminals. Three years is too short. Where immigrants 
are not to go to some colony so they cannot become a burden on 
society our restrictions should not be changed to admit them. 



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CHAPTER IX. 

THE BRITISH-GERMAN WAR 

Facts and Undisputable Proof as to the Man to Blame 

for this War. 

Liars and sapheads, I prove to you that England was to back 
up France in war on Germany; I prove to you that France was to 
back up Russia in war with Germany, and Russia was to back up 
the dare-devil Serbs to start the scrap; I prove to you that Belgium 
planned with England for this war and was not neutral. 

If you pro-British liars do not know that the following state- 
ments of facts are true, you will know they are true when you get 
through this book. Let out your British yell to deceive the people — 
the "idiotic Yankees," the London "Times" calls us. 

England had formed an iron band around Germany of Russia, 
France and England, so that Germany could not expand. Russia, 
France and England could gobble up the earth's surface, but Ger- 
many, that needed more territory for her growing population, was 
not allowed to expand or secure any more desirable land. Keep 
Germany shut in. Imperialism. 

England's naval and military men have planned with French 
naval and military men since 1906 for war with Germany. A part 
of their plan was that the French navy was to be withdrawn from the 
Atlantic and sent to the Mediterranean, and England's navy would 
guard the coast of France. 

England agreed to go to war with Germany if France did, re- 
gardless of whether Belgium was invaded or not. 

In 191 1, England, to the verge of war, backed up France in 
breaking a two-year-old treaty with Germany, and made it plain to 
Germany that England had plotted war with France against Ger- 
many. Even members of the British Parliament suspected it, and 
time and again questioned Sir Edward Grey about a, secret under- 
standing with France. Grey repeatedly denied it. But since the 
war began he confessed in a speech that EngHsh naval and military 
men had planned with the French naval and military men since 1906. 
It was after England backed France to break that treaty in 191 1 that 
Germany got so active with her war preparations. 

Sir Edward Grey made a sham proposal on July 30, 1914, at a con- 
ference of the powers to settle the trouble between Austria and 
Serbia, and asked that further military preparations be suspended. 
Pretended to be for a peaceable settlement, and that very day 
threatened to resign unless England backed up France and Russia 

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in war on Germany. Three members of the British Cabinet opposed 
him and resigned. The British White Book does not tell you about 
their resigning. They are Mr. Burns and Lord Morley and Sir 
Trevelyn. Publically Grey pretended to be for a peaceable settle- 
ment, but officially he was forcing war. 

Grey deliberately plotted so that Belgium would be invaded and 
and forced the Belgians to resist the Germans, so hell would be 
raised there and thus set the world against the Germans. He did 
the thing that made it sure that Belgium would be invaded, so as 
to stir people against the Germans, just as the British government 
spread the lies that the Boers were flogging English women, so that 
they could go to war and crush the Boers. 

Grey secretly worked for war, and yet publically pretended to 
be for peace while working to force war, and had to diabolically de- 
ceive and trick the English to get them into the war. 

The revengeful French that got what they deserved from Ger- 
many in 1 87 1, now put colored troops from Africa to guard German 
women in France, and leave the German women to the passions of 
those colored troops. The French are as revengeful as Paris is rot- 
ten. The French had an alliance with Russia against Germany, and 
in 1913 the French government loaned Russia 400 millions to take a 
firmer attitude toward Germany. France was to back up Russia in 
war on Germany. 

Russia was to back up Serbia to start the war. You liars for 
the allies know this is so, but I am going to prove it to you, so you 
cannot get around it. Now let out your British yells and spread more 
lies for the allies to deceive the people that the London "Times" 
calls the "idiotic Yankees." 

The Kaiser tried to get a peaceable settlement between Austria- 
Hungary and Serbia, and finally Austria agreed to discuss the mat- 
ter with Russia. But the Czar forged ahead with his mobilization. 
The Kaiser tried to persuade him to stop, so that there would be no 
war. Now you liars, if the Czar had stopped mobilization, then how 
would the Kaiser have got war? The Kaiser tried to effect a peace- 
able settlement between Austria and Serbia, and he tried to persuade 
the Czar to not mobilize; he asked France to keep out; he asked 
England to keep out, and agreed to not invade Belgium if England 
would keep out; after the Kaiser tried to persuade Russia to not 
mobilize, you liars accuse the Kaiser of causing the war. It would 
not be any rtiore of a lie for you to accuse him of plotting the as- 
sassination of the Austrian Crown Prince to bring on this war. The 
Kaiser saw that after the way England backed up France to the 
verge of war in 191 1, and the way Russia was building military roads 
toward Germany, and the French navy was in the Mediterranean 
Sea, and France was -increasing her army 50 per cent., that war was 
coming in spite of all he could do. And like a sensible man he got 
good and ready for it. The allies wanted war and they have got it, 
too, and I am sorry when any one spoils for war so, as John Bull 
did, that he has not got it worse. John Bull looked out for his own 

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hide all right. Made sure that the navy could keep the Germans 
from his "tight little isle," and then backed up the other nations to 
go at it, and forced little Belgium to stand up between him and the 
Germans. The yellow race will yet land in England without any 
trouble, easier than England and her big navy could land here. 
x\narchy is what will let the yellow race into England. The British, 
the way that they have always treated every other nation, I have not 
the least bit of sympathy for them, because of the downfall that 
they are to have for tearing down civilization. Pride always goes 
before a fall. It did down south before the rebels parted with their 
slaves. It did with old Pharaoh, and will be the same with Wall 
Street and John Bull. 

That treacherous Belgian government planned with England 
and France for this war, and to make the Belgians still more hostile to 
the Germans, told them the lie that the Kaiser wanted them to fight 
against France and England. This is how that devil of a Belgian 
king deceived his subjects. I have about as much regard for the 
crowned heads of Europe as I have for the Wall Street crooks. 

But to see the people here rush ahead in their blindness and 
hate and greed in a way that means their own destruction. Yet 
they can see no cataclysm ahead. They are like the people of San 
Francisco before the earthquake hit them. It came upon them un- 
expected. So will the destruction of this civilization be just as un- 
expected. Now, remember, you men will yet say, now is peace and 
safety ; now we have got it fixed so hell cannot break loose, and then 
the sudden destruction (i Thes. v, 3) of this civilization will be 
near. John Bull and the big crooks and liars here have made it 
inevitable that civilization will go to pieces. There is no way this 
war can end in Europe without making discontent there and here 
worse than it was before the war. You will see enough during our 
next administration. These are the perilous times Paul said would 
come (2 Tim. iii, i). The time will come that the world will be 
ruled by love and justice, instead of money and selfishness. But it is 
awful, the destruction and desolation that is to first sweep the earth, 
because this world is ruled by greed and selfishness instead of love. 
It is mammonism and rotten individualism that is the curse of our 
civilization. 

How England Prepared for This War. 

Bombastic John Bull thought he was prepared to take the Dardanelles 
or he would not have tackled the job. Bombastic John was going to have 
Constantinople by last Easter (1915) ; but the Turks helped him to change 
his mind. I said the Turk would stick. Bumptious John butted his bull- 
head into the Dardanelle rocks and struck something harder than his head; 
so had to give it up. Now why does he not get off that old gag, that he 
was not prepared. How many more nations does John Bull think he needed 
to have had lined up to fight Germany in order to have been prepared? John 
Bull forced this war; because he thought Russia could roll right over on top 
of Germany. Russia did roll but it was backwards, and bumptious blundering 

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John found that another one of his plans had failed. No, that pirate was not 
prepared for so many of his plans to fail. 

Wonder How Many More Nations John Bull Thinks He Should 

Have Had Lined Up to Make War on Germany in Order to 

Have Been Prepared for This War? 

Hon. A. Maurice Low in a letter to the N. Y. World said that a whiff 
of common sense would blow to pieces Dr. Bernard Dernburg's argument 
that England availed herself of the pretext of the violation of the neutrality 
of Belgium, hoping to destroy Germany and crush her commercial competition. 
That has been discussed elsewhere. But Mr. Low said: "Instead of being 
ready, instead of having made any preparations, England took not a single 
step until after war was declared." Then he says, in the same letter: "Only 
a nation of fools would go to war against Germany with no preparations 
made for the conflict." Would a man put two such irreconcilable statements 
in the letter if he intended to be fair ? Does not his last statement prove that 
his opinion is that England was prepared ? Prepared by having Russia, France, 
Japan, and with Belgium fortified only on the German side and not on the 
English or French side. The world never saw so many nations, so many races, 
all at the same time on one nation — all practically out to exterminate Germans. 
The most infernal assassination plot the world ever saw. All because the 
German is smarter than John Bull. 

That measly old gag, "You are German," does not go with me. 
For my ancestors came to this country long before the Revolutionary 
war. But if a man with German blood in him must not stick up 
for Germany, then those of us with English blood in us must not 
stick up for England. That is how measly unfair you are. My ances- 
tors in Old Hingland died so long ago that the British stiff, the king, 
has no strings on me. 

That university man of Massachusetts tried hard to immortalize 
himself by trying to drag this country along behind the British stiff, 
the king, into war against Germany, because he is so in love with 
rotten old Hingland. You remember a short time back he criticized 
Abraham Lincoln because Lincoln was not snobbish in his appoint- 
ments. Well, after this college man has gone down in oblivion and 
centuries passed and his name never mentioned, the name of Abra- 
ham Lincoln will still be green in the memory of the common people 
though he did not go anything on snobbery. A man with real great- 
ness like Lincoln did not need to worship himself and put on the 
sham airs and strut of mortal man to impress. These American 
toads, snobs, that toady to Hingland are not made out of a bit finer 
mud than the rest of us Americans. But they are so British that 
they imagine that we loyal Americans are not Americans because 
we refused to be smeared with their British tar. 



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CHAPTER X. 

ROTTEN MAMMONISM 

Lincoln as a Prophet. 

President Lincoln a short time before his assassination, in a letter to a 
friend in southern Illinois made a prophesy, which was published about 1872, 
in a paper in Washington, D. C, called Columbia. President Lincoln wrote: 
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes 
me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corpora- 
tions have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow and 
the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working 
upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few 
hands and the republic destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the 
safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war." 

"A Hold-Up/' Lincoln's Characterization of the War Bond Bill. 

Editor New York American: 

Sir: — The following incident may be of interest to your readers: 

Shortly after President Lincoln signed the bill authorizing the issuance 
of bonds for a war loan I was present at a dinner with the Hon. S. P. Chase, 
then Secretary of the Treasury. It will be remembered that, while the bonds 
bore interest, they were exempt from the war tax then being levied in every 
way, both directly and indirectly. 

During the course of that dinner I pointed out to Mr. Chase, at his request, 
what I conceived were the popular objections to the new law. I said: 

"The law is unjust in that it creates two classes of people in this country. 
I am a manufacturer, and every month I draw a check for five per cent, of my 
monthly sales as a war tax. Nothing gives me more pleasure," I continued, 
"than sending that check to you to carry on this war whether I make money 
or not. But in these bonds there is no war tax for the banker on all his profit." 

"That is the very reason," said Mr. Chase, "that made Mr. Lincoln refuse 
to sign the bill. But we were at the end of our resources. We could not 
prosecute the war without the money these bonds would yield. 

"One day I put that bill in my pocket and hunted up Mr. Lincoln. I told 
him I could go no further if he did not sign that bill. T shall be compelled 
to resign,' I said, 'and you must find some other man to work it out.* 

"Mr. Lincoln looked up at me and said, 'Where is the bill?' I took it from 
my pocket and handed it to him. 'Hand me a pen,' he said, and, sitting down 
at a table he signed the bill. Then, rising with pen in hand, he said, 'This is 
the worst bill I ever signed. It is a hold-up. I do it to save the country,' 
and threw the pen on the table." 

Some time afterward Senator Pomery, of Kansas, one of Lincoln's stanch- 

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est friends, told me that Lincoln said to him on this subject: "If I live to get 
out of this muss I intend to spend the rest of my life in giving my country an 
honest financial system." — J, T. Whipple, New York City. 

This was not a beginning of the troubles that Lincoln had with the 
robberous bankers and some corporations that aided them. Like gold the first 
paper money was acceptable for import duties and any other taxes the govern- 
ment might levy. All other issues of paper money would have been the same 
if Lincoln could have had his way. But the thieving bankers wanted a chance 
to make millions out of the war. So they fought the issue of paper money 
in Congress and even threatened to go over to help the rebels and held up 
legislation until Lincoln and Thad Stevens had to give in to the bankers and 
issue money that was not acceptable for import duties. Then the import duties 
had to be paid in gold coin. Thus gold went away up and the paper went 
down to 40 cents on the dollar, excepting the first issue it was always worth 
about the same as gold. 

The robberous bankers fought to get money that was not acceptable for 
import duties so they could force it down to 40 cents on the dollar and they 
fought to have that kind of money acceptable at its face value for government 
bonds and they fought so that those bonds had to be payable in gold. And 
up as late as 1872 hundreds of thousands of these 40 cent dollars were run 
off and rushed over and turned in at their face value for government bonds 
payable in gold. Under Cleveland the U. S. Treasury reports which prove 
this robbery of the nation as late as 1872 by the bankers were destroyed or 
made unobtainable by private citizens. It was no wonder that Lincoln said 
the money power was enthroned in this country during the Rebellion. It is 
so apparent that you do not need to argue it. 

Big Wall Street Crooks Purposely Caused the Panic of 1907. 

In 1907, a surly robber of Wall Street wanted to organize a Steel Trust, 
but Roosevelt would not consent ; so the gang, bound to rule or ruin, the panic 
of 1907 was engineered to force him to give in. To start the panic one of the 
partners went to a N. Y. City plutocratic daily and had inserted a notice that 
the Knickerbocker Trust Co. was in bad; that started the run, and after it 
had spread to other banks, Roosevelt caved in. The robbers cleaned up over 
sixty millions on the sale of water. That is sowing to the wind. By and by 
we will reap a whirlwind of vengeance. Such lawlessness begets lawlessness. 

If Roosevelt had been equal to the job he would have called Congress 
and demanded an investigation to see whether a set of robbers could be 
allowed to cause financial disaster to millions of persons and override justice 
and the laws of the nation just because they were determined to inject hun- 
dreds of millions of water into a Steel Trust. But instead of that Roosevelt 
hysterically opened the U. S. Treasury to them and let them loan U. S. money 
out and the crooks pocketed the interest. Read what Hetty Green said about 
that job. 

The panic of 1893 was caused by the Wall Street gang, though they 
did not intend that it should result so disastrously. They simply planned to 
have a money stringency felt over the country and then tell the country that 
the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman law was to blame for it and 

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thus demand the repeal of that clause. President Cleveland was under their 
manipulation and called a special session of Congress to repeal that clause. 
There has been no financial legislation since the money power was enthroned 
during the rebel war that was not in favor of bankers. 

"When Mr. Wilson was pushing through the rejuvenated Aldrich bill, 
fresh from the Wall Street typewriters, many Congressmen urged that provi- 
sion should be made for the farmers as well as big business. Mr. Wilson 
refused to have anything interpolated in the Wall Street document. Inquiry 
has recently demonstrated, as given in an official report, that more than three 
thousand national banks, to whom the government loans funds at four per cent., 
are charging their customers double this rate. And the same report shows 
that more than a thousand national banks charge from ten up to one hundred 
and twenty per cent, per annum, making the farmers practically their slaves. 
Because Mr. Wilson turned down every request to provide for these in his 
Federal Reserve bill, the farmers are today fully alive to the character of 
the man. A change of heart at this late date will not re-establish him in the 
confidence of the farmers." — John Brisben Walker in the N. Y. American, 
January 12, 1916. 

Yes, you dear farmers, the campaign is near now and he is so anxious 
about you. You dear pumpkin-heads remember that when he was putting 
over a good thing for the banks that he positively would not allow anything 
to be done for you. Now it is a case of I need your votes or I will get left. 
So he is anxious something should be done to get your vote. Are you 
pumpkin-heads and going to be worked so easy? Hearst has always stood 
up for the interests of the farmers and producers who are robbed at both ends. 

The First National Bank of New York was founded in 1863 with a half 
a million capital. In thirty-nine years that bank raked in twenty-one millions 
dividends. In 1901 capital was raised from half a million to ten millions and 
in ten years it produced twenty-five millions dividends. That is robbery — 
nothing but robbery. Abraham Lincoln said: "Labor is prior to and inde- 
pendent to capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have 
existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and 
deserves much higher consideration." Money of itself never increases. It 
is always some man's labor that brings the increase, adds to it. So interest 
is one man producing and another getting the increase. If a man has a 
chance to make a big thing but needs more capital and goes to the bank, the 
chances are that the banker insists on such a big rake-off that the bank gets 
most of it, 10 to 120 per cent. That is the banking business. While the hell- 
born competitive system exists, money will be necessary. But that will not 
be long now. 

Some of you big Wall Street crooks may have heard of the man back 
of the New York Journal. His papers are the best things published in the 
world for those who believe in American principles and fair play, which 
naturally does not appeal to your gang and heartless nature. 

"The trouble with this country is with the big men at the top that rule. 
Bribes, corruption, threats, promises are their weapons. . . . The big men are 
the criminals, instigators of crime, givers of bribes, corruptors of govern-, 
ment. Rottenness in office is their work." — N. Y. Journal, July 25, 1912, 

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Big Robbers Do Not Go to Jail. 

They are financial prodigies and immune from the law that applies to 
the small fry. For thirty years prior to 1903 the New Haven R. R. paid 
8 to 10 per cent, dividends. It runs through a populous and rich territory. 
It shares sold for $240 per share. Many widows invested all their savings 
in New Haven stock because it had paid so well for years. There were 
more than 22,000 stockholders. In 1903 the Wall Street crooks got control 
of New Haven and in 10 years had piled upon that road 321 million dollars 
liabilities, and it not only did not pay dividends but was not quite earning 
its fixed charges, and the roadbed and equipment had deteriorated so that 
wrecks were frequent, killing 54 persons and maiming over 400. "During 
the period when most of the press of the country was lauding Morgan as an 
inspired Unancier, a builder, not a wrecker, a great philanthropist and a 
public spirited citizen, the New York American and the Boston American — 
the two Hearst papers in the territory most immediately affected — were de- 
scribing him as Mr. Mellen's testimony shows he really was — a rapacious 
dictator, with a mania for monopoly and its fruits, brow-beating his financial 
associates and robbing the public at the same time, and treading as far on 
the dangerous side of the criminal law as high-priced lawyers, skilled in 
law-evasion, would permit." — From N. Y. American, May 20, 1914. 

"The devil is a roaring lion, going around, seeking whom he may de- 
vour." Now that is not from the New York Journal. 

A while back that Morgan bunch said they did not get the loot. At 
that time I said if some one else had beaten the Boss to it there would have 
gone up a howl that would have shaken Wall Street and made them think 
the Judgment Day had come. The exposures leave no doubt as to who got 
the lion's shares. A robber who steals millions must not have the goods 
taken from him like the small fry that steals a purse with $50 in it. It is a 
sacrilege to expose the big robber; he is a financial king, but Hearst's dailies 
call them looters and pirates. 

"Why should the biggest man in Wall Street stay out of jail when it 
is perfectly clear that he is a thief and should be in jail with the others? 
Is not a rich man guilty of theft MORE criminal than the poor man with 
his great temptation and dire necessity?" — From N. Y. Journal, Oct. 3, 1914. 

Steal $50 and you are looked upon with contempt and sent up for being 
a cheap skate. Steal $60,000,000 and you are not locked up: no, you are 
a wizard of finance and shell out a little to the politicians and judges. They 
will not interfere with a man of your calibre. That would be interfering 
with business, don't you know? Sixty millions that is legitimate thrift. So 
do not be a cheap skate or you deserve to be sent up. The rotten Subway 
exposures just now demonstrate that if you are not a piker you will be 
looked upon as a big and important man. 

To send a few of the recent robbers of the New Haven road to the 
Federal penitentiary would, indeed, be a disturbance to business — the too 
common business of stealing from the stockholders of a railroad all that 
their stock represents. 

The men who looted this road are the men who continually protest 
jthat any government interference with their financial operations, any effort 

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by means of an income tax, or a corporation tax, to make them pay their 
share of the cost of government, will injure the widow and the orphan. 

Thousands of impoverished homes in New England bear witness this 
Christmas season to what they did to the widow and the orphan when oppor- 
tunity came their way. 

Last Jime Mr. Hearst propounded these questions, which remain un- 
answered : 

"Is there any consequence of individual crime which is more menacing 
to society, to law and order, and to respect for law and order, to property 
rights and to human rights, than the consequences of the collective crime of 
the New York and New Haven Railroad? 

"If an individual steals he is sent to jail. What has happened to the 
individuals who are responsible for the plunder of the public in the conduct 
of the New York and New Haven Railroad? 

"If an individual bribes he is pilloried and imprisoned. What has hap- 
pened to the individuals who are responsible for the habitual debauchery of 
the New York and New Haven Railroad? 

"If an individual kills he is hanged. What has become of the indi- 
viduals who are responsible for the continual killings of the New York and 
New Haven Railroad? 

"Is punishment to be meted out only to the little — is immunity to be 
extended always to the great? 

"Is there to be forever in this alleged Republic of ours large punishment 
for small crimes and no punishment for large crimes?" — From N. Y. Ameri- 
can, Dec. 31, 1913 

Just remember that there would never have been any exposure of the 
looters of the New Haven, not if Wilson's man McReynolds could have 
prevented it, and President Wilson rewarded McReynolds by setting him 
upon the U. S. Supreme Court bench, and it must be very gratifying to those 
who wanted the lid kept down to see him so fittingly rewarded. It gives the 
rest of us such confidence in that court to see a big majority of that kind 
of gentlemen on the job there. Not long ago that court had the temerity 
to do some legislating on the side for Mr. Standard Oil. 

The Trust-Controlled Judges. 

See how the U. S. Supreme Court judges legislated for Standard Oil 
by inserting the word "REASONABLE." 

The trust-controlled judges see that the anti-trust Sherman law is not 
allowed to hurt the men it was intended to penalize and that it knocks out 
the men to whom it was not intended to apply, that is the laboring men? 
Instance the 140 Danbury hatters. Labor must not do to manufacturer what 
employers do to laborers, boycott them. So they were to foreclose on the 
hatters' homes to get $252,000 for using the boycott, if the laboring men had 
not come to the front and saved them. That Sherman Anti-Trust Law was 
never intended to be used against the laboring man but against combines 
that oppress them and the public. But judges always look out for big crooks 
and twist the law so as to save them. And labor must not do what capital 
does. For instance, see the decisions in Ohio about coal miners, yet the 
capital can combine and get protection there. 

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Wage-Slaves, Does This Man Think of Humanity or Dollars? 

The Morgan interests control 785,499 wage earners, so the U. S. In- 
dustrial Commission report, and cites facts and telegrams to prove it. 

Mr. Charles A. Collman said: "When the Elder Morgan died, I wrote 
his four-page obituary in the Herald (N. Y.). In order to get that material 
I read about everything that had ever been written about Morgan; I ques- 
tioned his friends and associates and consulted my personal experiences with 
the bankers. When I completed that obituary I was struck by a most re- 
markable fact. Not once by a gratuitous and kindly act, in no incident of 
his long career had he displayed the slightest sympathy for his human kind. 

No wonder we in Wall Street were curious to learn the manner of man 
young Morgan should prove to be. I think the first revelation came to us as 
a shock. On February 21st of this year (1915) young Morgan testi- 
fied before the Industrial Relations Committee. Chairman Walsh asked him 
what he considered the proper length of a working day for his employees. 
"I haven't any opinion on that subject," replied young Morgan. "What do 
you regard as the proper income for unskilled workmen?" "There again I 
have no opinion." "Do you consider $10 a week sufficient to support a long- 
shoreman ?" "I don't know. If that is all that he can get and takes it, I 
suppose it is enough," and Mr. Morgan laughed. "At what age do you 
think children should go to work?" "I haven't any opinion." 

The spectators at the hearing began to regard the witness with curious 
interest. "How far do you think stockholders are responsible for labor con- 
ditions ?" "I don't think stockholders have any responsibility in that matter," 
was the reply. "How about directors?" "None at all." — From The Father- 
land. This is young Morgan's stand on labor. He is at the head of the 
Morgan interests, which own and control banks, corporations, steamship 
lines, steel and iron plants that employ 785,499 wage slaves. Do you think 
that kind of a man is working for humanity or dollars? It is the Morgan 
interests that in this country were largely responsible for this country's 
keeping this war going in the interests of British liberty and Wall Street. 

Anarchists and Capital Punishment. 

I believe in short shift for men that want to overthrow law and order or 
that take the law in their own hands. Capital punishment is proper and 
should be the rule instead of the exception for murders. Some say of society, 
"Thou shalt not kill!" A man has a right to kill another in self-defense and 
murder is a crime against the life of society. Society should defend itself 
by taking the life of the murderer. Because the victim could not kill his 
assailant is no reason why he should be allowed to live; it is the very reason 
why society should execute that murderer, who has forfeited his right to live. 
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed (Gen. 9; 6). 
Those who want to abolish capital punishment are too maudlin for these 
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CHAPTER XI. 

REVOLUTIONS COMING 

Means Repudiation of War Debts and Taxes, Inviting 
the Destruction of the White Race. 

Revolution After Revolution Coming in Europe. 

Revolution not only in America, as I have explained, but in all Europe, 
in one nation after another. There will be such a time of revolutions that 
the world has never seen. The times are getting ripe for the "great tribula- 
tion, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time" (Matth. 
24). Remember the expelling of the Turk by Russia in the next European 
war immediately precedes the beginning of the time of revolutions. Ger- 
many will not interfere in that war on Turkey by Russia (Daniel xi, 40-45). 

The acts and deeds of the big .crooks and ruling politicians here and in 
England have made, inevitable the overthrow of the white man's civilization. 
If these men had deliberately plotted to destroy our civilization they could not 
have gone about it more effectively than by doing what they have done. You 
big crooks well know that England plotted to get this war simply to crush 
Germany because blundering John Bull could not compete with the Germans. 
You scoundrels know that and you know how the people here have been 
deceived about the war, so as to put the blame for the war on Germany. 
You know that the Kaiser could not have kept out of this war. For rapacious 
England, revengeful France, barbarous Russia and the Serbian assassins 
had plotted and were determined to have war. That is why the Austrian 
Crown Prince was assassinated and nothing was done to even arrest the 
men who plotted that assassination in order to force Austria into war. 
Civilization is doomed, doomed. So I say to Germany, "Fight until civiliza- 
tion does crash." That will not be long, only a few short years until you 
will get your convincing here. Pile up the taxes and debts, lay desolate the 
countries, decimate the people, intensify the hatred, pauperize nations, de- 
ceive the people here by the lying, cowardly press. The hellish job has 
already been done and you cannot now save the white man's civilization. 
Revolution after revolution will soon follow this carnage. The yellow race 
will then see that it is their chance to finish the white race. Many men in 
Europe have recently said to Ex-Senator Beveridge that they expected the 
yellow peril. Big crooks put another one of your puppets into the White 
House. It does not matter what the stripe is. Republican or Democrat. 
Keep on deceiving the people as you have in the past. It will do no good 
to quit the game now. Plenty of hot stuff ahead. Facts. 

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The Coming Destruction. 

Before the Turk got into this war I said he would. And I said the 
war would end with the Turk still in Constantinople. And that later Russia 
would decide to boost the Turk, bag and baggage, and will get enough Greek 
help to do it. Germany will not interfere then. After the Turk is expelled, 
then begins the revolutions and anarchy in one nation after another. That 
time of revolutions makes it plain to the brown man that he can jump in 
while the white nations are disorganized and mow them down. This war 
of John Bull's on Germany has made all these revolutions and anarchy in- 
evitable. Remember the people will yet say now is peace and safety; then 
this destruction will be very near (i Thes. 5, 3; Joel 2; Mai. iv, 5). 

The Leader Who Will Direct the Yellow Hordes. 

The leader who will hurl the yellow race at our civilization and sweep 
it away is already in Japan. When the revolutions begin he will take it in 
his head to be the biggest thing in the world, as bumptuous John Bull has 
long had it and is now trying to crush Germany for daring to be the more 
efficient in commerce. That Jap leader will see how easy he can set about 
his infernal job when the revolutions start after this war. 

"Asia is powerful and aggressive and could provide men in tens of 
millions indifferent to death, requiring only able leadership to make civil- 
ization, such as we know it, a thing of the past." — From Sunday editorial, 
N. Y. American, Jan. 2, 1916. That leader is already in Japan. 

"Do you think that our fears for the white man's dominance and the 
white man's civilization are fantastic; that the overthrow of the white race 
by the yellow and brown races is incredible? 

"Consider these facts : 

"The area of Asia is about 17,000,000 square miles. 

"The area of North and South America is about 15,000,000 square miles. 

"The area of Europe is about 3,750,000 square miles. 

"The yellow and brown races of Asia inhabit now nearly as much of 
the earth's surface as do the white nations of Europe and America. 

"Asia is four times the size of Europe and has every conceivable form 
of natural raw wealth. 

"The population of Europe is about 380,000,000. 

"The population of North and South America is about 150,000,000. 

"THE POPULATION OF ASIA IS 850,000,000. 

"THE YELLOW AND BROWN INHABITANTS OF ASIA OUT- 
NUMBER THE WHITE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE AND OF BOTH 
AMERICAS BY THE ENORMOUS TOTAL OF 320,000,000. 

"THE EXCESS OF YELLOW AND BROWN PEOPLE IN ASIA 
OVER WHITE PEOPLE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA IS MORE 
THAN TWICE THE TOTAL POPULATION OF NORTH AND SOUTH 
AMERICA, AND NEARLY EQUALS THE POPULATION OF EU- 
ROPE. 

"Now, then, educate these 850,000,000 Asiatics in the deadly science of 
warfare; teach them to manufacture and to use the infernal weapons with 
which Europe's peoples are slaying «ach other; remove the traditions of 

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the white man's superior military power; tempt them with the wealth and 
the weakness of the white man's countries, and what is to be expected but 
another incursion upon civilization such as the barbarians made upon civil- 
ized Rome, another overthrow of civilization such as occurred when Vandal, 
Goth and Frank trampled under foot all the glorious monuments and 
achievements of the wonderful ancient world? 

"The Shalers, Russells, Holts, Gulicks, Jordans et id omne genus prate 
and prose to us of Japan's altruistic and peaceful yearnings for eternal 
friendship with the white peoples, and particularly with us white people 
grouped under the American flag. And each of them is a fool after his 
own degree. 

"Japan means to seize China as she seized Korea, with lies on her lips 
and cruel determination in her heart. She means to establish her hegemony 
in Asia, to eke out her poverty with China's untold millions of raw wealth; 
to grow and to strengthen herself while mad Europe wastes her strength 
and wealth. Then Japan will strike and strike desperately for the hegemony, 
not of Asia, not of Asia and of the Pacific, but of Asia and the Pacific and 
America, with the consequent domination of the whole world. 

"Patient, cautious, faithless, having neither any fear nor any scruples; 
destitute of honor or morality; cunning and beyond question fanatically 
courageous; hating the white man and all his ways and works in her heart 
of hearts, Japan stands upon the threshold of the coming centuries a menacing 
and portentous figure of incarnated militarism and conquest. 

"She is even now resolved some day to fall among her own ruins, with 
her weapons in her hands, or to set the heel of the Asiatic on the neck of 
the white man." — N. Y. American, Oct. 21, 1915. 

What Will the Yellow Cataclysm Be Like? 

When the yellow millions are once fairly started on their infernal sweep 
of death and destruction they cannot turn back any more than the army 
worms can from a field of green oats. Everything behind is eaten and the 
worms must go forward. So it will be with the yellow race. Behind will 
be the abomination of desolation. To exist, eat, they must keep on with 
their fiendish devastation of life. The upheaval will be so sudden and un- 
expected that unless certain powerful influences are exerted, the yellow 
cataclysm will arrive before it is due. 

The American people are so blind and so deceived by lying John Bull 
that they have rushed ahead with this war and sealed the doom of our 
civilization. The fool tariff of a conceited college professor had put the 
country industrially and financially on the bum, so that when this war came 
there was a chance to better our desperate industrial condition and get back 
some of the hundreds of millions that the fool tariff had sent to Europe — 
better our condition by running ammunition factories. America, that claims 
to be the salvation of the world, helped destroy the white civilization by 
feeding this hell in Europe. The white race has got to pay for this hell and 
the next unexpected thing is the revolution and anarchy here when the after- 
clap of the war hits us. 

The man we needed in the White House during these perilous times 
is William Randolph Hearst. But it is too latenow. The damage has been done. 

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Germany with armed enemies all around her needed a big army. British 
navalism needs to be smashed worse than German militarism. British naval- 
ism is a standing menace to America and South America. England violated 
the Monroe Doctrine once on this continent and took an island for a naval 
base and has it fortified against us near the Panama Canal. Yet England 
objected to our fortifying the Panama Canal. Roosevelt was President, 
and it would not have been fortified if Hearst had not woke up Congress 
and the country about it and demanded that it be fortified. It was not 
Roosevelt that started that fight which resulted in the fortification of the 
Panama Canal. It was that loyal fighting American patriot, William Ran- 
dolph Hearst. With all the large daily papers he has in New York City, 
San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta, Ga., the Ameri- 
can voters are such sapheads that they cannot see that Hearst has always 
worked for the best interests of the nation. In spite of his executive ability 
and how he has fought as a patriot and a statesman, Hearst cannot even be 
elected mayor of rotten New York City, modem Babylon. Because free 
America is ruled by Wall Street and plutocrats and boodlers and grafters 
and pork-eaters and pluguglies. 

"Hath this been in your days or the days of your father? a great people 
and strong; there hath not been the like (the yellow race) ; the land is as a 
garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, 
and nothing shall escape them. They shall run like mighty men; they shall 
climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways 
and they shall not break ranks: neither shall one thrust another, they shall 
walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall 
not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall climb up 
upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses ; they shall enter in at the 
windows like a thief." — From Joel. "And the kings of the earth, and the 
great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, 
and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in 
the rocks of the mountains." — Rev. vi, 15. 

"The Lord maketh the earth empty. The earth is defiled under the in- 
habitants thereof, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the 
ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse de- 
voured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the 
inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men left" (Isaia 24). The 
prophecies relating to this destruction have been explained in the book 
advertised in the back. Joel, ist and 2nd chapters; Isaiah xiii, 9-18; Isaiah 
24; Jer. XV, 15-38; Mai. iv, 5; i Thes. v, 1-6; Rev. ix, 14, 15; Dan. 12; 
Matth. 24. 

Japan and China. 

By Ex-Senator Beveridge. 

Thirty years ago that white man would have been scoffed and scorned 
who predicted an armed, warlike and triumphant Japan; yet by the sword 
Japan has won the mastery of the East. Only yesterday the overthrow of 
the Chinese dynasty was accomplished by such fierce fighting as the present 
war has not yet equalled. Arid now the event which all who have given 

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study to Oriental conditions have known a long time ago has come to pass — 
China is being reorganized and again made militant by a capable power that 
has learned and improved upon all that the western world has to teach. 
Does any one doubt, therefore, that if the white races were to disarm, 
Oriental domination would follow? Let any one who does doubt read 
history. — From N. Y. American. 

Fifty Millions Mowed Down in Europe by the Mongolian Invasion. 

Rev. Thomas B. Gregory said: ''A black despair took hold of men's 
hearts, life's pleasures were forgotten, and its industries neglected. There 
was but one thing to think of — the appalling vision of the onsweeping de- 
stroyers ! 

"The old annalists tell us that the Tartars were a fearful set to behold, 
with broad, flat, yellow faces, great distended nostrils, small snake-like eyes 
black as jet, short, thick legs, voices deep and hollow, which, in the act of 
yelling, sounded like the bellowing of bulls. And as the hordes of these 
monsters approached, we are informed, so loud was the grinding of the 
great wooden chariots, the bellowing of the buffaloes, the cries of the camels, 
the neighing of horses, and the ferocious chants of the Tartars that the 
people of the doomed cities could scarcely hear each other's voices. 

"And so the infernal hosts swept on, villages and cities disappearing 
before them like grass before the scythe. 

"Fortunately for civilization, just as Europe, partially recovered from 
its fright, was about ready to throw itself across the path of the invaders, 
they suddensly turned about, recrossed the Dnieper into Russia and ceased 
to be a menace to the nations south of that stream. In Russia, however, 
they held on their power for more than two hundred years and were not 
fairly driven out until about 1550, over three centuries from the time they 
first struck the Czar's doriiinions. 

"The ringmaster and original inspirer of this Dance of Deaths in which 
more than fifty millions of human beings were ruthlessly slain, was Jenghiz 
Khan, born in a tent on the'banks of the Onau in 1162. It was said that he 
was born with a clot of blood in his clenched fist, and in blood he lived and 
died. Great in a sense, was Jenghiz, for, though by birth he was but the 
chief of a petty Mongolian tribe, he lived to see his armies victorious from 
the China Sea to the banks of the Danube. There were no 'Captains of 
Industry' in those days to exploit humanity; there were only 'Conquerors,' 
who murdered men outright with swords, clubs and spears, and among all 
the conquerors of history Jenghiz stands first. Compared with the con- 
scienceless, remorseless Mogul, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon and the rest 
of the long list were weaklings and nobodies. Of all the scoundrels who 
from the beginning until now have 'waded through slaughter to throne,' 
Jenghiz Khan bears the palm alone. In his bloody renown he stands with- 
out a fellow and without a peer." 



'The Holy Nun of Viterbo" Said the Yellow Deluge Will Come. 

! as 
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This nun was famous in Europe as a prophetess, and before her death 
said the Yellow Peril threatens the world, but America first. Maria Bene- 



detta Frey, born In 1836 in Rome, became a nun of the Cistercian Order. 
She had paralysis of the spine in 1861. "Sister Maria Benedetta spent more 
than half a century with her head tightly bandaged and supported by a 
steel frame fixed at both ends of her bed. She endured continual martyr- 
dom but never complained. Her nurse, who grew old by her bedside, died 
before her, and said she never even heard her sigh." — N. Y. American. 

It was after she became an invalid that her prophetic power developed. 
That was because her body had been so weakened, and next, she did not 
allow herself to think of herself or her suffering — lived as it were, apart 
from the body, thinking only of others. Her fame in Italy was raised to 
the highest pitch by predicting the assassination of King Humbert at Monza 
on July 29, 1890. "On July 29th the Mother Abbess of Sister Maria's Bene- 
dettas convent informed the sub-Prefect of Viterbo, a government official, 
that the Sister had had a vision of King Humbert's assassination. The 
official wired to Rome for information and received word that nothing had 
happened to the King. As a matter of fact, the officials in Rome had not 
received news of the King's death. He was stabbed late in the afternoon 
by Gaetano Bresci, an anarchist, and died within an hour. The extra- 
ordinary inquiry from Viterbo gave rise to the belief that the plot against 
the King must have been hatched there, but an investigation showed that 
there was no ground for this. Bresci plotted the King's assassination in 
Paterson, New Jersey. The widowed Queen soon visited the nun and was 
greatly impressed by her gifts and helped spread her fame throughout 
Europe." — N. Y. American. 

Strangers are not allowed to speak to nuns of the Cistercian Order 
except through an iron grating; but about ten years before her death (1913), 
the Pope allowed her to receive visitors in her room. On December 27, 
1908, she predicted the Messina earthquake and hundreds fled and escaped 
that catasthrophe on account of her warning. That did more than anything 
else to make her beloved by the common people.' She predicted the war 
between the Crescent and the Cross and that the Cross would be victorious. 
"The Holy Nun of Viterbo," as she was called, said the Yellow Peril would 
come to America first. 

Dr. Crane, Here is Your Fair and Polite Jap. 

The Englishman, Mr. F. E. Smith, in his "International Law," says: 
"On November 21, 1894, the Japanese Army stormed Port Arthur, and for 
five days indulged in the promiscuous slaughter of non-combatants: men, 
women and children, with every circumstance of barbarity." The London 
Times said: "Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday were spent by the 
soldiery in murder and pillage from dawn to dark, in mutilation, in every 
conceivable kind of nameless atrocity, until the town became a ghastly in- 
ferno, to be remembered with a fearsome shudder until one's dying day." 
Now, Dr. Crane, come forward with your whitewash. 

Dr. Frank Crane says: "One of the favorite themes with troublemakers 
is the coming war with Japan. What they want is to be treated decently." 
What the swell-headed Japs want in this country, they do not and will not 
grant to foreigners in this country. They do not allow foreigners to hold 
land in Japan let alone the right to vote. Since Dr. Crane wrote his edi- 

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torial it came to light that this administration expected Japan to start war 
on this country in 1913. It would not have been revealed when it was if one 
of the men from the Navy Department had not tried to run a bluff on 
Representative Hobson that there really was no danger of war with Japan. 
Hobsoti replied: "In May, 1913, and for several weeks thereafter our gun- 
ners at Corregidor Island stayed at their guns night and day. The harbors 
were mined. Troops were sent there. Everything was prepared for a two 
year's siege. I have noticed other things from time to time. Well, the 
Secretary of the Navy is here. I will ask him, if what I have stated is not 
true, let him deny it. The Japs are a very polite nation. They even wem 
to war with Russia without declaring war, because they are so poHte. Their 
profession of friendliness for this country is absolutely worthless. Until 
Japan ceases to be a menace to the open door and American interests in the 
Orient, such professions are hypocrisy.- Since this war Japan has got a 
worse swelled head than ever. She is going to be the John Bull of the 
Pacific, and has begun to try it on China, which eventually will be to the 
detriment of American interests. 

Josiah Strong, in Our World, says: "China's 400,000,000. There is a 
yellow sea of humanity, vast, pent, and pressing, capable of sending across 
the Pacific a human tidal wave mighty enough to submerge our continent 
and overwhelm our civilization. With the white and colored peoples facing 
each other across the Pacific the world must reckon with a race problem of 
the first magnitude." 

"The population of British India is given as 231,085,132. The figures 
are for some ten years ago, and it would not be far out of the way to put 
the present population at 235,000,000. One of the Indian princes recently 
declared that if called upon India could furnish an army of between seven 
and ten millions of men." — Los Angeles Examiner. 

Sir Ian Hamilton, in a speech on the coming struggle between the yellow 
and white races, said that the conflict would come on the Pacific coast, and a 
Japanese newspaper, the Nichi Nichi, replied that: "The Japanese must pre- 
pare to stand alone and face the white race in battle. The Japanese must 
inform other Asiatics of the fearful consequences of the prejudice and 
unrighteous attitude of the white man. Asia must cooperate with Japan 
for the common defense/' The World's Work said: "When the Japanese 
soldiers won a battle against the Russians, bonfires were lighted upon the 
plains of India and in -the mountains of Afghanistan, yellow nations cele- 
brating the triumph of the yellow over the white. 

William Randolph Hearst says: "The nations of Europe must already 
have reached a point where they realize, more than they possibly could have 
realized before the event, the extent of the destruction and disaster which 
they are inflicting and inviting. Europe is committing hari-kari on the 
doorsteps of Asia. . . . The horrifying war in Europe means a diminution 
of the number, and a wakening of the power in the world of the white 
nations of the Occidental nations of which we are one. It means a corre- 
sponding strengthening of the Oriental aims, ideals and ambitions. It tends 
to make possible an eventual triumph of ideals and conditions wholly 
offensive to our town." 

Dr. Strong in his book, "Our World," says the annual increase of 

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China is i per cent, and that if it were only one-half of i per cent., "China 
could still preserve her present density of population and send out 2,000,000 
emigrants every year, or a surplus of 200,000,000 during the century. That 
number would be more than sufficient to double the present population of 
each of the Pacific lands occupied by white men. That is, if 200,000,000 
Chinese were distributed throughout Canada, the United States, South 
America, New Zealand, Australia, and Siberia, it would be sufficient to 
place a Chinese alongside of every human being now living in these coun- 
tries, and would still leave more than 50,000,000 undisposed of." And China 
would still have her present density of population. People cannot see a 
cataclysm until it is upon them. 

Captain Richard Pearson Hobson Says: 

China, if not Christianized, will eventually scourge the world. Napoleon 
said, let China sleep. Hobson estimates that China can in a decade put 
30,000,000 armed men in the field, "who with proper drill and leadership 
would make the best soldiers in the world. For in addition to stoicism, 
tenacity of purpose and vitality, the Chinamen's ability to subsist on rats 
and other refuse of civilization would make it impossible to starve out such 
an army, even by devastating the whole country before it." Christianize 
China, we tried it on John Bull, but the dope had no effect. 

The unexpected, sudden upheaval is the order of these times of dis- 
content, and will be so in America and Asia as well as Europe. 



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CHAPTER XII. 

SOCIALISM AND PEACE 

Socialism vs. Plutocracy 

The man on the railroad who is a socialist says he ought to have 
the same pay as the president of the road. Everybody ought to be 
paid the same. He believes that all men should be free and equal and 
proposes legislation to make it so. They might just as well propose 
to legislate to make the stars of heaven free and equal ; the stars 
would never stand for it, neither would human nature. The man 
who can only swing a pick cannot render the same service that the 
man who is capable of managing the affairs of that company of 
100,000 men, and it is a crazy idea that he should be paid the same. 
Yet that is socialism. The socialistic theory is that everything must 
belong to the government, and everybody be paid the same. That is 
simply one extreme, and plutocracy as demonstrated by the big cusses 
of Wall Street is the other extreme. Neither of which is a just nor 
safe foundation of civilization. 

To-day instead of giving all a chance to work and live we proceed 
to get the work of the world done by as few men as possible. That is 
business, you know. And it is also business to get as much of what 
those fellows produce as we can without doing any of the sweating 
ourselves. What the man produces is of more consequence than the 
man. Investigators at Johnstown, Pa., found that the babies of the 
workers who receive less than $10 a week died at the rate of 256 per 
1,000; while the babies of the workmen who received $25 a week, 
died at the lower rate of 84 per 1,000. And remember one-third of 
the adult workmen reported by the Immigration Commission earned 
less than $10 per week. Really we are not civilized yet. 

.' 
Socialistic Moonshine. 

Socialism is democracy gone hopelessly bughouse. This fine 
talk about the brotherhood of man sounds all right in a ^Sunday 
school. But there is no cohesive power in socialism. See how the 
socialistic brothers in Europe are at each other's throats. Socialists 
are blind leaders of blind and will take a header into the ditch of 
anarchy, and that will be the last you will ever hear of sociailsm. 
Human nature only learns by experience and will soon get the 
experience with a vengeance. Disintegration of the social fabric is 
inevitable and is near. Humanit}^ has got to pass through an awful 
catastrophe before they will be willing to give up the love of money 
and the love of self as the foundation of civilization. But after the 

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cataclysm humanity will see the need of turning- from money. Then 
we can have justice. Then it will be safe for the lamb to lie down 
with the lion as Isaiah prophesied it yet will be. The lamb lies down 
with the lion now; but he is not visible; he is being assimilated. It 
will never be safe for the lamb to lie down with the lion until that 
lion loves the lamb so much that he will not eat him on sight as he 
does now. Then the world will be ruled by love. What a man pro- 
duces wall be his. And when one man cannot produce an article, 
one or more men will co-operate and the man who is the most neces- 
sary in that combination will receive more than the one who cannot 
render so important a service. But that does not mean that he is to 
be like John D. or Andy and make a bountiful philanthropist of him- 
self. That is robbery. He gets more because his service deserves 
it and not because he can take it like a highway robber, the way they 
get it to-day. ' I :|f < 

Land will belong to the man that uses it and not to some one 
who has the earth fenced in and makes the poor pay rent for vex- 
ing the soil for livelihood. Every man must be of service to so- 
ciety or cultivate an appetite until he is willing to earn his bread by 
the sweat of his brow. Be of service to his fellowman. When people 
have more love they will not be given so to debauchery and lawless- 
ness and foolish frivolity as everywhere to-day. The products of 
labor shall belong to those who produce them and the price of any 
goods will be the cost of production and distribution and not what 
some robber wants to make ofiF it as now. 

Any system, any privilege that enables a man to enrich himself 
from other men's labor or other men's pockets is an injustice. In 
the Panama Canal Zone labor checks were used instead of money. 
"When the guard or criterion of the transaction in the exchange of 
products comes to be regarded as the realty, of which it should be 
but the medium of transfer, it has usurped the place of genuine riches, 
and falling into the hands of the great gamblers of commerce, is made 
the power through which the distinction of castes are formulated and 
maintained. 

Nothing ought to be more apparent than the truth of the proposi- 
tion, that the purpose for which industry is applied is the acquisi- 
tion of the essentials, comforts, and luxuries of life. Gold and silver, 
as coin, do not comprise either of the above mentioned incentives to 
human activity. Place a body of men anywhere in the world where 
life demands shelter, fuel, clothing and food, which can only be ob- 
tained through direct industrial application, and they would never 
think of digging gold and silver and converting them to coin before 
applying their industry to the essential things. The industrial masses 
have been so over-burdened with the pressing wants of daily life 
that there has been no time to think upon the great questions of eco- 
nomics. They have scarcely dreamed that the distribution of the 
wealth of the country could be conducted without something to rep- 
resent the commercial exchanges of the world, hence an adherence 
to the so-called medium of exchange called money, founded (or pre- 

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tended to be) upon gold as a standard of value, to which they bear 
some proportionate ratio. 

Shall men who must starve or purchase bread with labor, first 
purchase gold of the plutocrat — at the price they can procure that 
for which they perform service? This is a question the laboring 
classes are asking themselves, and they are awakening to the answer. 
They are some so-called labor reformers who still persist in the 
attempt to improve upon the form and use of that which shall repre- 
sent exchanges. If the competitive system were admitted to be an 
essential factor of human activity and existence, we could agree that 
some medium of exchange ought to be employed. Under such cir- 
cumstances we certainly would advocate the use of that which would 
require the least expenditure of labor, as being the most economical 
representative. No medium of exchange is required. During the 
war, the Government fed and clothed hundreds of thousands of men 
by locating its places of storage, and providing for the distribution of 
all things essential for carrying on the war. A system of distribution 
could be as easily instituted, even more easily, for one hundred mil- 
lions of people than for one million. 

Social and political economy should provide for the direct, im- 
mediate, and cheapest methods of distributing the products of in- 
dustry. One of the first things to be considered in the distribution 
of the products of industry to 100 millions of people, is economical 
transportation. The channels of transportation are the only legiti- 
mate mediums of exchange, and the only ones required. Barter, in 
the true system of social economy, cannot exist. The processes 
through which the race has progressed from its more savage to its 
present stage of barbarism, falsely called civilization, cannot be taken 
as an illustration of the introduction of the new order. The present 
great system competism is the natural outgrowth of the greed which 
actuate the animal,whether existing in the lower orders of animal life, 
or in the genus homo. 

Every medium of exchange, whether gold, silver, or paper, which 
may be manipulated by the shark to the detriment in barter of the 
honest and unsophisticated, should be destroyed. Money and the 
competitive system must go together. The old fabric must go. The 
barter system has never been, nor can it ever be, made a system of 
equitable distribution. So long as it is in vogue the effort to perform 
little service for much of the products for which service is rendered, 
will impulse the human mind to devise means to shirk the responsi- 
bilities of the performance of use, and to accumulate riches without 
rendering an equivalent. There must come a change! 

We are confronting the world's catastrophe on the lines of cora- 
petitism. The nations will be astounded at the suddenness with 
which it will culminate. Modern churchanity is a conglomeration of 
all the paganisms of the world and will suddenly crumble to the 
dust. The governments of the world, devoid as they are of every 
spark of divine prinicple — love to the neighbor, will find their se- 

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pulchre in the valley of the decomposing carcass of a polluted and 
hypocritical church." — From the book advertised in the back. 

World Federation to Abolish War. 

Human nature is selfish. If you want to abolish war there must be 
love between man and man. They must be tied together by love. The 
Allies to-day are tied together by selfish interests — not love, but devilish 
selfishness. How are you going to tie men together when selfishness rules 
the world? To talk about a United States of Europe is sheer foolishness. 
You cannot tie men together by scraps of paper or a body of men meeting 
at the Hague. A man hires Pinkerton men to shoot down his striking 
laborers and uses the nefarious rebate system to cut the throats of his com- 
petitors, and after he has made his pile he throws bouquets at himself by 
separating himself from a few lumps of his ill-gotten loot as a philanthropist. 
Bah! Bountiful philanthropists swell around with their untold and untaxed 
millions and thousands of wage-slaves are walking around on their uppers, 
and you expect to tie men together and abolish war. You cannot see straight. 
Your world federation would work like a rope of sand. Civilization is on 
the verge of the bloodiest catastrophe that can overtake it and you cannot 
bring stupid humanity to their senses. 

You editors who are stirring the people to back England are rushing 
them headlong to destruction, which will overtake them soon enough without 
your blind help. You need not damn me because things are rotten and 
shaky. Supplying ammunition to England is only making your own destruc- 
tion that much easier. Cataclysms destructive of many, many millions have 
come in the past and another is almost due. Many centuries hence will be 
another. This has been the order of things and will be until a large part 
of humanity ceases to live on the propagative plane and the world is ruled 
by love instead of capitalism and devilish selfishness. Competitism is the 
house founded upon the sands of individualism. Soon come the storm of 
class and race vengeance. And the rain descended and the floods came and 
beat upon that house and it fell and great was the fall of it (Matt, vii, 27). 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE PREACHERS. 

In 1860 Lincoln called Mr. Newton Bateman, Superintendent 
of Public Instruction for the State of Illinois, into his office and 
showed him the reports of a canvass of Lincoln's home town, Spring- 
field, 111. "Here are twenty-three ministers of different denomina- 
tions and all of them are against me but three." Twenty had de- 
clared their intention of not voting for him. Lincoln drew from 
his pocket a New Testament and said : "1 am not a Christian. God 
knows I would be, but I have carefully read the Bible and I do not 
so understand this book. I think more on these subjects, God, Divine 
Providence, Prayer, etc., than upon all others, and I have done so for 
years." Yet he was not a Christian. He studied the Bible and 
saw that the real teachings of Christ and His apostles were not the 
doctrine of the Church. So, according to Ida Tarbell, Lincoln wrote 
a book against orthodox churchanity which luckily was never pub- 

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lished, or he could never have been President because of the bigots 
and ignoramuses. Yet Abraham Lincoln said : "Whenever any 
church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for mem- 
bership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both 
law and gospel, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and thy neighbor 
as thyself, that church I will join with all my heart and all my soul." 
Yet twenty sky pilots of his home town did not vote for him. The 
preachers stand for churchanity and not for Christ. 

Solomon said into hell whither thou goest there is no work, nor 
device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom (Ecc. ix, 10.) That sanctimonious 
bluff the preachers run on you about hell is the grave. This is the 
only place for heaven. Ignoramuses, though they were born into the 
world this trip, imagine that they were never here before and will 
never be born again. That has been discussed in the book advertised 
in the back and from a Scriptural view. It is a fool doctrine the 
belief of a heaven up aloft from this world and no one knows it 
better than the preachers do. But people were raised to that super- 
stition and they have got to preach it or lose their jobs. Amen. 

"God is either bound by the force of human circumstance and 
man's voluntary opposition to the laws of life, or he is a hard and 
cruel Master who, having the power to transform sickness, death, 
hell and sorrow to joys of superior bliss, will not exercise his almighty 
power in establishing a sudden transformation." 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

SHIFTY WILSONISM 

A Pedagogue in Politics; Wilson's Record as a Flopper 

Theodore E. Burton just said: "Mr. Wilson and the Democrats 
came into power just three years ago, and almost on every great 
question, foreign and domestic, they have taken both sides. No won- 
der it is hard to stand by the President." Mr. Wilson's record as a 
flopper was very fully summed up by the N. Y. American, February 
20, 1916. That issue contained a page and a half on "Wilson's Re- 
markable Record as a Political Weather Vane!" Part of it follows: 
"Between the platform pledge of Mr. Wilson to protect the lives and 
property of American citizens throughout the world and the shameful, 
brutal FACTS, the weather vane has shifted in a manner to humiliate 
and disgrace us, citizens, in the eyes of mankind. To sum the only 
evidence of the only witness we have cited, who is Woodrow Wilson 
himself, we find that — 

"President Wilson was in favor of a single Presidential term. 
Now he is against it. 

"President Wilson was in favor of the Garrison Continental Army 
plan. Now he is against it. 

"President Wilson was opposed to increasing the navy. Now he 
demands that the navy be made the largest in the world. 

"President Wilson was opposed to a young man spending time in 
military training. Now he demandr that 400,000 be trained. 

"President Wilson was opposed to a Tariff Commission. Now 
he demands a Tariff Commission. 

"President Wilson favored intervention in Mexico, and did send 
the army to intervene. Now he declares that while he is President 
'nobody shall interfere in Mexico.' 

"President Wilson demanded that all Mexican claimants get to- 
gether in a conference to establish a de facto government, and threat- 
ened non-recognition of any who refused. President Wilson recog- 
nized as the Mexican ruler the only claimant who did not, and would 
not, join in the conference. 

"President Wilson was in favor of free Panama tolls. After his 
election he compelled the Democratic majority to repeal the free tolls 
law. 

"President Wilson wanted to knock Bryan into a cocked hat, and 
when elected made him his chief official adviser. 

"President Wilson was opposed to the initiative and referendum. 

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Then he declared he favored it. Since that he has forgotten it. 

''President Wilson was out and out in favor of free trade on theo- 
retical grounds. Now he says that he does not care anything about 
free trade theories. 

"President Wilson is for women's suffrage in New Jersey and 
against women's suffrage in Washington. 

"President Wilson was opposed to preparedness as late as last 
year. Now he is preaching preparedness fervently. 

"President Wilson was pledged to protect American lives and 
property in any foreign country, Mexico included. Now he says it 
is 'none of our business' what happens in Mexico. 

"We leave to President Wilson's apologists the task of reconciling 
so many contradictions. To us it seems that President Wilson has no 
fixed principles upon any subject under the sun, and that he is con- 
sistent only in advocating anything that promises to promote his 
re-election and his personal ambitions." 

Wilson's"Flop on^Armed Ships 

President Wilson, are Submarines Legitimate War Vessels? 

If they are it does not take a college professor to know that to 
arm merchantmen so they can sink submarines makes such merchant- 
men war vessels also. Any foolhardy American has a right to go 
over between the trenches — in front of a German cannon. But it 
would be no more farcical to jump up and down for war because such 
an American loon got shot full of holes, than to insist that Americans 
must be protected on vessels armed to sink submarines when sub- 
marines are in every navy. Gall, sophistry, buncombe about Ameri- 
can rights on armed ships to deceive the sapheads. Bah ! it is not 
American lives. You can see how little Mr. Wilson cares for the 
lives of Americans by the way he stands for hundreds of them to be 
slaughtered by the Greasers. Here is what all this howl is about. 
Without the war supplies, ammunition and munitions from this coun- 
try this war would soon have to stop. Germany has a right to stop 
those ships carrying it and send them to the bottom of the sea. So 
England has armed them so they can sink a submarine when they 
hail such vessels to search them. They want to put on a few Ameri- 
cans and insist that because the Americans are on there they cannot 
sink armed ships without warning, and if they warn them,- then the 
armed ship can sink the submarines, as they have gun crews on them. 
Let Americans keep off of armed ships. Now comes another editorial 
from the N. Y. American: 

Must Not Outlaw Our Best Defense 

An armed vessel is a war vessel, ready to make war upon any 
submarine she encounters, and cannot expect to be treated as an un- 
armed vessel by a submarine. 

If we were at war with Germany to-day our submarines would 
be ordered to sink any German ship carrying cannon, whether the 

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ship was called a merchantman or a naval auxiliary, and any sug- 
gestion that our commanders should expose their submarines to sure 
destruction by rising to the surface and hailing such armed vessels 
and sending warning shots across their bows before actually firing 
upon them would be received with derision by the American people. 

We must not permit the unneutral press and political haranguers 
to blind our eyes to the common sense of the situation because they 
so bitterly hate Germany. 

We are not at war with Germany. It is our business to recognize 
the sea rights of Germany because we are neutral and because the 
time may come any day when we shall have to depend for our own 
safety upon using submarines in defense of our country exactly as 
Germany proposes to use them in her defense against Great Britain's 
war of blockade and starvation. 

Any attack, from either Europe or Asia,, delivered against us 
must be a naval attack, and we would be sorry fools to put out of our 
hands the strongest weapon of coast defense and offense which we 
could command. 

If the allies do not want their merchantmen torpedoed without 
warning let them cease to arm their merchantmen with naval guns 
and naval guncrews. — N. Y. American, February 15, 1916. 

Prof. Wilson, I Congratulate You 

on your latest flop; because it cuts your political throat. You are a 
professor of many, many flops. By the time this is off the press you 
probably will have flopped some more. If the boys down at the 
other end of Pennsylvania Avenue always tried to stand by you, 
they would have to go flippity-flop lively. Here is a quotation from 
the Political New Testament for Loyal Americans, Hearst's New 
York American. You will notice that I often back up my views by 
quotations from that loyal American daily. Well, here is some more 
backing : 

It is only thirty-three days since Secretary Lansing sent to the 
foreign Powers a dispatch in which he said: 

"While I am fully alive to the appalling loss of life among non- 
combatants which has resulted from the present method of destroy- 
ing merchant vessels without removing the persons on board to 
places of safety, and while I view that practise as contrary to those 
humane prinicples which should control belligerents in the conduct 
of their naval operations, I do not feel that belligerents should be 
deprived of the proper use of submarines, since those instruments 
of war have proved their effectiveness in this particular branch of 
warfare on the high seas. 

"I believe that a formula may be found which, though it may 
require slight modification of the precedents generally followed by 
nations prior to the employment of submarines, will appeal to the 
sense of justice and fairness of all the belligerents. . . . 

"Prior to 1915, belligerent operations against enemy commerce 
on the high seas were conducted by cruisers carrying heavy arma- 

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merits. In these conditions international law appeared to permit 
a merchant vessel to carry armament for defensive purposes without 
lessening its character as a merchant vessel ; ... It could not be 
used effectively in offense against enemy naval vessels, while it 
could defend the merchant vessel against the generally inferior arma- 
ment of piratical ships and privateers. 

"The use of submarines, however, has changed these relations. 
Comparison of the defensive strength of a cruiser and a submarine 
shows that the latter, relying for protection on its power to sub- 
merge, is almost defenseless in point of construction. A merchant 
ship carrying even a small calibre gun would be able to use it ef- 
fectively for offense against a submarine. 

"Pirates and sea rovers have been swept from the main trade 
channels of the sea and privateering has been abolished. Conse- 
quently, the placing of guns on merchantmen at the present date of 
submarine warfare can be explained only on the ground of a purpose 
to render merchantmen superior in force to submarines, and to pre- 
vent warning and visit and search by them. Any armament, there- 
fore, on a merchant vessel would seem to have the character of an 
offensive armament. 

"If a submarine is required to stop and search a merchant 
vessel on the high seas, and in case it is found that she is of an enemy 
character and that conditions necessitate her destruction and the 
removal to places of safety of persons on board, it would not seem 
just nor reasonable that the submarine should be compelled while 
complying with these requirements to expose itself to almost cer- 
tain destruction by the guns on board the merchant vessel. 

"It would, therefore, appear to be a reasonable and reciprocally 
just arrangement if it could be agreed by the opposing belligerents 
that submarines should adhere strictly to the rules of international 
law in the matter of stopping and searching merchant vessels, de- 
termining their belligerent nationality and removing the crews and 
passengers to places of saftey before sinking the vessels as prizes 
of war, and that merchant vessels of belligerent nationality should 
be prohibited from carrying any armament whatsoever. . . . 

"My Government is impressed with the reasonableness of the 
argument that a merchant vessel carrying an armament of any sort, 
in view of the character of submarine warfare and the defensive 
weakness of undersea craft, should be held to be an auxiliary cruiser, 
and so treated by a neutral as well as by a belligerent government, 
and is seriously considering instructing its officials accordingly." 

Such was the policy of the Wilson Administration when it was 
made public in the dispatches to the foreign governments on Feb- 
ruary 12th. 

The German Foreign Office has since stated that 

"British merchantmen are armed with modern guns. They have 
trained naval gunners aboard. We have submitted proofs that the 
English Admirality have given minute and detailed instructions and 
orders to take the offensive against submarines on sight. We have 

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submitted proofs of the execution of these offensive instructions, 
and even copies of the orders of the British Admiralty that the 
trained gun crews of these merchantmen shall not wear their naval 
uniforms in neutral ports." 

If this view was *'just" and ''reasonable" on February 12th, when 
it was pubUshed as the policy of the Wilson Administration in a let- 
ter to foreign Powers by Secretary Lansing, then is not the contrary 
view now adopted by the President unjust and unreasonable? 

And is it reasonable to expect Congress to follow an administra- 
tion that has apparently no permanent principles or convictions on 
any political subject? 

Presidents of the United States having strong moral convictions 
and patriotic purposes have often won and retained the support of 
Congress and people even when the Presidents were wrong. 

But can any administration hope to retain the support of Con- 
gress and people if its opinions are as changeable as the chameleon's 
and are reversed in a Presidential year by a single speech, in a Re- 
publican State convention, by such a man as Elihu Root, who said 
that President Wilson's foreign policy was rash in words when it 
should be prudent, and timid in action when it should be brave? 

The question at issue is important to the safety of the United 
States, not alone in this war, but in all the future. Rules of war at 
sea were formulated in the Treaty of Paris in 1856, in the days of 
pirates, buncanneers, savages in the South Seas, and roving priva- 
teers.. Merchant vessels were then authorized to carry small guns 
as defenses against these, and no new code has ever been formulated. 
The facts upon which the law was based have changed. 

The submarine has since arrived. It is an American invention. 
It was designed primarily by Grenell as an American coast defense 
weapon. It will be so in future. Our national safety requires that 
we shall not now commit ourselves to the rule that a merchant ship, 
armed with rapid-fire rifled cannon, capable of sinking any submarine 
and manned by trained gun crews, shall be regarded only as a peace- 
ful merchantman. — N. Y. American, February 25, 1916. 

A man that so over-rates his own importance as to allow his 
gall to slip up where his honor should have been is apt to regard him- 
self as of more consequence than principle, or justice or international 
law. Americans have no business on armed merchantmen nor on 
carriers of ammunition, arms and such infernal stuff. Germany ought 
to send every such carrier to the bottom of the sea without warning, 
loaded or unloaded. Without this enormous supply this country is 
unneutrally furnishing to the allies the war would soon have to stop. 
So Germany's own self-defense justifies her in sending all carriers to 
the bottom of the sea without warning, loaded or unloaded, armed or 
unarmed. International law never had to deal with such an unpre- 
cedented supply of infernal stuff as this country is furnishing to keep 
this war going. Well, the professor cut his political throat with his 
last flop. He could never be re-elected. I am delighted. Any more 
flops that he may take in his political bed now cannot redeem him. 

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Again I am delighted. His intended heroic, grand-stand play shows 
how little he is guided by principle and justice. Remember the gall 
down at Baltimore. As the weeks go by and St. Louis draws nigh, it 
will be apparent to the discerning politician that the professor is a dead 
duck. His last flop did the trick. Delighted, does not express it. 
Keep this hot book going. 

"Our Professor of Ancient History." 

(From an editorial in N. Y. American, August 24, 1915.) 

**We suggest that in our next experiment in democratic govern- 
ment, instead of electing a college professor to our supreme executive 
office, we elect a minister of the gospel. A minister is even a better 
man morally and religiously than a professor. He is even a better 
talker and a poorer manager. He is even less experienced in the 
wicked ways of this hard and practical world. He is even a more 
admirable man IN HIS PROPER PLACE than a college professor 
and even more OUT OF PLACE as President of the United States, 
the greatest executive and economic position on the face of the earth. 

''But, O fellow citizens, the more unfit our leaders are the more 
credit there is for us in managing to stagger along somehow in spite 
of them. 

"Just think of the glory of surviving (if we could) four years of 
government more visionary and less practical than that of a college 
professor. A minister might be able to deal with our tariff situation 
in even a less efficient way than a professor has dealt with it. He 
might be able to give away more of our markets to foreign manufac- 
turers while securing even less foreign markets for ourselves. He 
might be able to get even less advantage for our shipping and our 
people out of a canal built entirely with our money. He might be 
able to sweep our entire merchant marine from the sea, while a college 
professor has only been able to destroy about nine-tenths of it. 

"He might be able to make the taxes higher and the times harder. 
It seems impossible, but he MIGHT do so. The next time, therefore 
— if fortunately there be a next time — let us give the minister a 
chance." — William Randolph Hearst. 

You Washington, D. C., boneheads, how do you like what Hud- 
son Maxim says? Here it is: "One of our great troubles is with our 
governing force, which is away below the average for intelligence. 
Most of it is about on a level with the intellectuality that gathers 
about a red-hot stove in a country town on a very cold night." — N. Y. 
American. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

THE PANAMA CANAL AND ADMINISTRA- 
TION SOPHISTRY 

The Panama Canal 

Once upon a time an enterprising man dug- a ditch and along came 
a fresh fellow and said: Say, Mister, I have just as much right to 
use that ditch as you have. And Mr. Wilson and his gang treacher- 
ously broke their campaign pledges and forced the fellow who dug 
it to give in and let rapacious John Bull use that ditch on the same 
conditions as the honest man that dug it. What more proof do you 
need that he was pro-British before this war began? Besides re- 
pealing free tolls Mr. Wilson has since arbitrarily increased the 
Panama Canal tolls to benefit the robberous railroads which in 
swindling the public had already pumped themselves so full of water 
that they could hardly waddle. That traitorous, Tory job, the repeal 
of free tolls for American ships would not stand long if the people 
ever came to their senses about the job and a merchant marine. 

You might as well say that when a man builds a hotel and agrees 
to charge all men using that hotel the same rates, that he has got to 
charge himself also for using that hotel, as to say that we have 
got to charge ourselves for using the Panama Canal. It is 
a clear principle of international law that no nation relinquishes a 
right in a treaty unless it is specifically stated in that treaty, and such 
was not the case in this treaty with that pirate, John Bull. 

Panamar Canal Tolls, By Richard Olney, Formerly Secretary of 

State. 

(From the New Volume Issued by the American Society of Inter- 
national Law.) 

1. The United States, as builder and owner of an artificial water- 
way within its own territory, is entitled to dictate the conditions of 
its use unless, and only so far, as it has contracted that right away. 

2. It has made no such contract except with Great Britain and by 
the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty and by the clauses of that treaty, which 
stipulate for the use of the canal by "all nations" on equal terms and 
for reasonable and equitable tolls. 

3. As the term ''all nations" comprehends not only states, but 
their" nationals, the crucial question is, are the words ''all nations" 
inclusive or exclusive of the United States and its nationals? 

4. The principle is well settled that a state conveys away its 

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rights of sovereignity or property only by terms which are clear and 
express and are not susceptible of any other reasonable construction. 
If the terms are vague and of doubtful import the presumption is 
against the state's intention to part with or abridge its jurisdictional 
or property rights. 

5. Hence, as the term ''all nations'*' as used in the treaty, may be 
taken to mean either all without exception or all except the United 
States, the latter meaning is to be accepted as the true one, because 
the least restrictive of the normal rights and powers of the United 
States. 

6. But it is unnecessary to rely upon presumption. The treaty 
assumes the United States to be the owner of a canal to be built by 
it on its own territory, and must be taken to have had as its natural 
and legitimate aim the fixing of the terms upon which other nations 
might use it. Except as necessarily abridged by such terms, nothing 
in the treaty indicates any purpose to further abridge the rights of 
the United States as canal builder and owner. 

7. In short, the treaty is an instrument by which the proprietor 
of a canal fixes and states the terms of use to its customers. There is 
an utter absence of evidence that the United States regarded itself 
as one of its customers. 

8. The neutralization proposed by the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty 
resembles that proposed by the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty only in the 
idea that the operating charges and rules for use of the canal shall be 
the same for all nations. It differs, of course, in the vital feature of 
conditioning such equality of terms upon protection being afforded to 
the canal. 

9. When five out of six of the treaty rules for the use of the canal 
do not apply to the United States it is a reasonable conclusion that the 
sixth also was not meant so to apply. 

Administration Twaddle, Sophistry, Buncombe, Treachery 

Here is some more backing from ''The Political New Testament 
for Loyal Americans" : 

In his letter to Senator Stone, Mr. Wilson declares : 

"But in any event our duty is clear. No nation, no group of 
nations, has the right while war is in progress to alter or disregard 
the prinicples which all nations have agreed upon in mitigation of the 
horrors and sufferings of war, and if the clear rights of American 
citizens should ever unhappily be abridged or denied by any such 
action, we should, it seems to me, have in honor no choice as to wdiat 
our own course should be." 

While this war has been in progress, England has "altered and 
disregarded" the express provisions of international law forbidding 
food supplies intended only for non-combatants to be declared contra- 
band ; has "altered and disregarded" the recognized prinicples of in- 
ternational law in regard to commerce between neutrals; has "altered 
and disregarded" the express declaration of international law which 
guarantees the inviolability of mails between neutral countries; has 

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"altered and disregarded" every important rule of maritime inter- 
national law laid down by the three Hague conferences and the 
Declaration of London, and has for now more than a whole year 
''abridged and denied the clear rights of American citizens" upon the 
high seas. 

Why is not England, as well as Germany, peremptorily told that 
these aggressions upon ''the clear rights of American citizens" must be 
stopped, if, under such circumstances, "we have in honor no choice as 
to what our own course should be"? 

Mr. Wilson, in his letter to Senator Stone, declares: 

"For my own part, I cannot consent to any abridgment of the 
rights of American citizens in any respect. The honor and self- 
respect of the nation is involved." 

One of the important articles of commerce expressly exempted by 
international law from being declared absolute contraband is rubber. 
To-day no American citizen can ship rubber to a neutral country or to 
any of the allied countries, except Great Britain, or can even buy and 
import for his own use in his own country any quantity at all of 
rubber without the permission of a resident British agent. This 
happens in New York every day. It is a gross infringement of in- 
ternational law and a harsh aggression upon "the clear rights of 
American citizens." What course in honor has Mr. Wilson pursued 
in this matter? 

The express law of nations is that neutral ships bound for un- 
blockaded neutral ports cannot be molested and confiscated, and yet 
during the past year American ships bound to unblockaded neutral 
ports in Sweden, Denmark, Holland and South America have been re- 
peatedly seized and confiscated, with a loss of many millions of dol- 
lars to the owners and shippers and to the final destruction of Ameri- 
can shipping trade with America's friendly neutral customers abroad. 
Why has Mr. Wilson consented to these "abridgments of the rights 
of American citizens" for more than a year of aggression and injury? 

In his letter to Senator Stone, Mr. Wilson says : 

"To forbid our people to exercise their rights for fear we might 
be called upon to vindicate them would be a deep humiliation indeed !" 

Yet American citizens are daily forbidden to exercise their rights 
of shipping goods of free voyage to neutral, friendly countries, and 
this very last week men have been arrested by United States Gov- 
ernment agents for having prepared a shipment of rubber to Sweden, 
though rubber is an article of free voyage by the declaration of The 
Hague and of London, and has been illegally declared an article of 
contraband since this war began — thus altering an international law in 
the midst of war. So, too, our citizens are refused protection in their 
lawful right to ship wool and clothing and foodstuffs and oil and other 
products — not to Germany, but to neutral countries which are at war 
with nobody. 

The question naturally arises why this is not "a deep humiliation 
indeed"? These instances — a very few among hundreds upon hun- 
dreds of like aggressions and wrongs unresented by Mr. Wilson — 

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seem to show conclusively that he has one set of rules of conduct 
toward Germany and another set for use toward England, and the con- 
tention of this newspaper is now and always has been that an Ameri- 
can President should uphold American rights against anybody and 
everybody alike, against Germany, against England, against the 
world. Nor can anybody ever persuade us that any other course is 
right, fair, honorable and calculated to maintain the dignity, the 
prestige and the good name of our country among the nations of the 
earth. 

But if Mr. Wilson's tolerance of British aggressions upon our 
sovereignty and our citizens'' rights does not square with the high- 
sounding declarations of his letter to Senator Stone, what must be said 
of his humiliating and almost abject course of submission to Mexican 
outrages upon American rights and American citizens? 

Take the declaration we have already quoted: 

"For my own part, I cannot consent to any abridgment of the 
rights of American citizens in any respect. The honor and self-respect 
of the nation is involved." 

What possible "abridgment of the rights of American citizens" has 
Mexico neglected to perform during these three years of watchful wait- 
ing and non-interference and practical consent to the foul outrages 
and cruel murders inflicted upon our fellow-citizens in Mexico? 

Is there any excess of savagery and bestiality that these bandits 
and assassins have forgotten to inflict upon their victims? Is the 
honor and self-respect of the American people not involved in the 
murder of inoflfensie American men and the outrage of helpless Amer- 
ican women and children in Mexico, as much, at least, as it is involved 
in the proposition that American citizens must be free to travel on 
armed belligerent ships? 

Or has Mr. Wilson one code of national honor and self-respect 
when dealing with Mexico and another code when dealing with Ger- 
many? Take also this declaration of Mr. Wilson in his letter to Sen- 
ator Stone : 

"To forbid our people to exercise their rights for fear we might 
be called upon to vindicate them, would be a deep humiliation in- 
deed." 

We know of no more well-established and indisputable right of 
an American citizen than his right to remain in safety, under his Gov- 
ernment's protection, in any country in which he may be lawfully 
resident or into which he may travel upon his lawful errands. 

And yet Mr. Wilson himself, by a proclamation addressed to con- 
sular officers, did "forbid our citizens to exercise- this right" and did 
warn them to quit Mexico and to leace their homes and businesses 
to destruction, since their Government would not protect them if they 
did exercise their right of remaining where they had lawfully settled 
or sojourned. 

And within no long time Mr. Wilson has reiterated this prohibi- 
tion of American rights in Mexico and reiterated his determination 
not to protect those rights in Mexico, by publicly announcing that it is 

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"none of our business" what Mexicans do in Mexico, and that nobody 
shall interfere with their outrages and murders while he is President. 

And Mr. Wilson has proved that he meant what he said by per- 
mitting the savage and hateful murder of nineteen Americans, done 
to death in one cruel orgy of assassination, to go absolutely unpun- 
ished and unavenged. 

It is indeed hard for us to see why it is right to warn American 
citizens to get out of Mexico and to stay at their own risk if they do 
stay, and why we should go to war rather tfian to warn American 
citizens to stay off armed belligerent ships, and to travel on such a 
foolhardy voyage at their own risk, if they choose to take such an 
unnecessary risk. 

Also, it is hard for plain-thinking men to see why we are deeply 
humiliated, to the point of war, by warning American citizens to keep 
off hostile armed ships and to voyage in unarmed American or neutral 
ships, and are not humiliated to the point of forcible intervention by 
the repeated and continuous robberies, outrages and murders of 
Americans in Mexico. 

Is there one code of honor and self-respect on the land and an- 
other on the sea, one for submarines and ships and another for 
brigands and murderers, one for Mexico and one for Germany? 

Mr. Wilson's full realization of the sanctity of American rights 
of life and liberty of action, as expressed in his letter to Senator Stone, 
makes all the more incomprehensible and inexplicable and inexcusable 
and outrageous his utter neglect to protect those rights in Mexico, his 
consent to the violation of all those rights in Mexico. 

If Mr. Wilson did not know the situation in Mexico, or if he did 
not know what American rights are and what is due to national honor 
and self-respect, his failure to act could be understood and forgiven. 
But when he does so thoroughly know the situation, and when his 
letter to Senator Stone shows so delicate and so sensitive an apprecia- 
tion of American rights and of American honor and self-respect, it is 
impossible to explain his conduct toward Mexico upon any ground of 
patriotic policy or honest convictions. — N. Y. American, February 
29, 1916. 

This is a government of politicians by demagogues for England 
and Wall Street and the railroads and pork. 

England can rob our commerce and business men and ignore 
our rights as she pleases, but it is Germany that must be given hell 
for it. When what Germany has done to this nation is not a drop in 
the bucket to what this greedy, hypocritical nation has done to Ger- 
many. Our treachery to Germany justified her in sinking everything 
carrying ammunition and arms, regardless of how many Americans 
were put on to protect their blood}^ carriers. Without this infernal 
supply this war would have had to stop long ago and Wilson knows 
it, and if he wanted peace he knew that by shutting off our infernal 
supply he could had peace, and so did Bryan. But Bryan was not in 
favor of it. That is the kind of a peace man he is. 



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CHAPTER XV. 

PUSSYCAT DIPLOMACY 

That fat bone-head in the House who tries so hard to stick up 
for Wilson and the allies is a fizzle beside that live cuss who makes 
the professor sweat. 

The Pussycat Diplomacy of This Administration. 

The pussycat diplomacy of this administration suppresses information 
on international affairs. For instance, the U. S. Senate twice asked for in- 
formation concerning the number of Americans that had been killed in 
Mexico and also driven out of that land of bandits — v^hen the Mexicans were 
shooting down Americans on our own soil under our own flag by the scores, 
Prof. Wilson had the unprecedented gall to twice refuse to even allow the 
Senate to know the facts or even to allow the U. S. soldiers to return the fire 
when the Mexicans shot them down on our own soil. (See Roosevelt article 
in March Metropolitan, 191 5.) So you see American lives are not so dear 
to him unless they are on British transports. Twice he had the unprecedented 
gall to refuse to allow the U. S. Senate information on the killing of 
Americans and still pursues the same policy of suppression of that informa- 
tion. When Prof. Wilson was forcing the repeal of toll for American ships, 
breaking his campaign pledge to the voters, he had the gall to say that he 
asked it because of "other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer con- 
sequences." He was suppressing something then, or . 

Senator Borah in a speech in the Senate quoted the prominent Mexican 
who said to an American in Chihuahua: "We have slaughtered your men; 
we have ravished your women; we have spit upon your flag; in the name of 
God what else can we do to make you Yankees fight?" Get a different 
President on the job that looks out for Americans instead of Wall Street 
and England. 

William Randolph Hearst, in a letter published in the Washington Post, 
January 15, 1916, said: "It is positively true, as Senator Borah declares, that 
the State Department has purposely, studiously withheld from the American 
people the fearful facts of Mexican murder and outrage upon American 
citizens. . . . 

"The American battleships, which had been in the harbor of Tampico, 
had been ordered by the Democratic Administration at Washington to put out 
to sea, lest in protecting American lives they should create some complications 
with the Mexican Government — the murder of Americans, apparently, not 
being considered a complication worth considering. 

"In the harbor of Tampico, however, was a German gunboat, the Dres- 
den, which was there to protect German citizens. This German gunboat had 
NOT been ordered by its Government to desert its post and its people. On 

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the contrary, it had been ordered to remain at all hazards, and to perform 
its full duty to its citizens and to civilization, regardless of complications. 

"When the captain of the German gunboat heard that this body of 
Americans in the hotel at Tampico was in dire distress and imminent danger, 
he sent a launch ashore with an officer and about twenty men. The officer 
marched his men up to the hotel and addressed the Mexicans. He said that 
the German man-of-war Dresden was in the Tampico harbor, with its guns 
trained upon the city, and at a given signal would open fire. He said that if 
the Americans within the hotel were not allowed to proceed under his care, 
without injury and without INSULT, he would give the signal and the mob 
could take the consequences. The mob calmed itself and fell back. The 
Americans were escorted in safety and silence to the German launch and 
taken on board the Dresden. The Mexicans have no respect for Americans, 
for the American flag or the American Government. But they knew better 
than to defy the Germans, and so these Americans, whom their own country 
had deserted, were rescued by the Dresden." — Wm. Randolph Hearst. 

The American insists that the Administration neither quibble nor evade 
in replying to the demand for all the facts in the possession of the State 
Department relating to injuries and atrocities inflicted upon Americans in 
Mexico during the past four years. 

Congress has a right to know these facts. The American people have a 
right to know these facts. It is not only our right to know what has been 
done to American citizens in Mexico, but it is our business to know. These 
facts should never have been concealed from us. 

The Department of State had no moral right to conceal these facts from 
the American people. This is not Russia. This is not a country subject to 
censorship and bureaucrats. This is a free country of free men whose Gov- 
ernment officials are our EMPLOYEES, not our schoolmasters or bosses. 

Senator Borah and Senator Fall both assert that the archives of the 
State Department conceal reports of outrages and murders committed upon 
American citizens as bad as this awful massacre in Chihuahua. Senator Fall 
knows at first-hand more about Mexico and Mexican conditions than the 
President and all his advisers put together. When Senator Fall says that 
the Department of State has concealed frightful outrages from the American 
people, we believe him. The American people believe him, too. 

On the part of the American people we demand that the State Depart- 
ment transmit to Congress ALL the facts in its possession. Among other 
documents we demand the report of the Brazilian Ambassador, who acted 
as our representative in Mexico, sent to our Department of State. 

The President and Mr. Lansing know what disclosures that report con- 
tains, but Congress does not nor do the American people. And both Congress 
and the American people have the right to know and should know what that 
report contains. We want the light turned on — that's what we want. We 
want to know the facts, the truth — the dreadful facts, the humiliating and 
terrible truth. In this case "we" means the whole American people. 

The Administration will make an irreparable blunder if it tries to evade 
this demand. It ought never to have concealed these shocking facts. It 
ought not to attempt to keep them concealed any longer. 

The American people demand the truth, the whole truth and nothings 

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but the truth, about these shameful conditions that have prevailed in Mexico. 
The Administration might as well make up its mind to tell the truth, because 
the people are resolved to have it. We have A RIGHT TO KNOW what 
outrages and murders these bandits have inflicted upon our American men 
and women, and we MEAN TO KNOW every detail of these crimes and 
horrors. — From N. Y. American, Jan. 17, 1916. 

Wilson Keeps Mexican Facts From Senate. 

"Report called notable for what it omits rather than for the information 
conveyed in it; matters of confidential nature, called for in Fall Resolution, 
are withheld by Lansing." — N. Y. American, Feb. 18, 1916. 

You cannot take gall and rhetoric and sophistry and a grandmother in 
England and make an American statesman. A man that will suppress in- 
formation about the treatment of American citizens in Mexico for fear the 
American people will not stand for it, is a brand of patriot that should not 
be allowed to give orders but take orders and obey them. Fellow citizens, 
there is no god on wheels down at Washington that a man must not tell the 
truth. Voters go after the political hides of such measly politicians. Big, 
fat Bill Taft would not take a fall on that Mexican muddle. Let us put a 
loyal American on the job and let the Greasers know that it is not healthy 
for them to molest Americans. This administration suppressed facts long- 
ago for fear the American people would not stand for such outragings. Do 
to this administration what you did to Taft's. No ceremony about it either. 

INQUIRER. — The President of the United States cannot declare war 
against a nation. The Constitution very wisely places the war power in the 
hands of the Congress. The President may go so far as to suggest, or even 
to recommend war, but its actual declaration must come from Congress. — 
N. Y. American. 

No, the professor is not the whole thing. He is only part of our govern- 
ment and of a minority administration at that. 

Disgraceful Results of This Administration. 

"What is this Democratic Administration and Democratic majority in 
Congress doing to prepare this nation to meet either the peril of naval and 
military aggression or the certainty of economic warfare upon our United 
States ? 

Between them they are doing now just what they have done during the 
three years they have been in power. What is that? Why, letting our naval 
and military defenses dwindle and decay and delivering our commerce, bound 
hand and foot, into the hands of our foreign competitors and trade enemies. 
Do you ask for the proof? Well, listen. 

We built the Panama Canal with our own American men and money, 
and to encourage and develop American shipping enacted a law permitting 
American ships, under certain circumstances of voyage, to pass through the 
Canal free of tolls. 

What happened to that wise and helpful legislation? It was RE- 
PEALED, through the urgent solicitation and strong pressure of the Ad- 
ministration. And why was it repealed? Because ENGLAND AND GER- 

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MANY objected to our American ships passing toll-free through an American 
canal. 

And why did England and Germany object? Because this freedom from 
tolls would have given our American shipping a chance to compete with the 
cheaper built ships and the cheaper paid crews of the British and German 
merchant marine. 

So we humbled ourselves to their demand and ate dirt at their behest, 
and struck our own harassed and bedeviled merchant marine another blow 
in the face at foreign dictation. In addition to this the Administration 
further tightened the strangle hold on our merchant marine by an act that 
can best be told by giving the following paragraph from an editorial in 
the American of March 2, 1914: 

// was Oscar Underwood who wrote into the tariff bill the clause grant- 
ing a reduction of 5 per cent, in duties on goods imported in American ships. 
This measure, of such vital importance to American shipping, was vigorously 
debated in the House and the Senate. It was properly considered and dis- 
cussed in its every aspect. Finally being adopted, it zvent with the act to the 
President and zvas signed. Almost instantly the President, through the 
Attorney-General, ordered that clause of the law ignored. 

This preferential duty was intended to encourage and build up the 
American merchant marine, and it would have done that very thing auto- 
matically. What next did this patriotic and far-seeing Democratic Adminis- 
tration and Congress do to American industries and sea trade? They did 
two things. They passed legislation which drove the American transocean 
merchant marine clean off the Pacific and handed the transportation of 
American goods to and from the Orient to our dangerous enemies, the 
Japanese. 

And having thus destroyed the American merchant marine and future 
trade in the Pacific, they enacted a stupid tariff to cripple our industries and 
ruin our seafaring trade on the Atlantic. 

And nothing but the unforeseen emergencies and demands of this huge 
war kept this Democratic asininity from being as completely successful in 
destroying our Atlantic merchant marine as it unhappily was in destroying 
our Pacific merchant marine. And now what is this Democratic. Adminis- 
tration and this Democratic majority in Congress doing in these stirring 
and all-eventful times, when foresight and courage and DECISION and 
ACTION would put our world trade and our merchant marine in an impreg- ' 
nable position of power and long-continued prosperity? 

Why, they are playing the whole huge stake into the hands of England 
and Germany. 

Submits to Illegal Acts of the British. 

They are permitting and even encouraging the British navy to block our 
trade in every port of the world, to cripple and to destroy the growth of our 
commerce, not only with the friendly neutral states of Europe, but actually 
with the friendly neutral states of South America, so that when the war 
ends and the race for commercial supremacy and sea-going business begins 
WE WILL BE SO WEAK AND CRIPPLED THAT WE CANNOT 
EVEN START. There will be only three competitors for sea-carrying 
business and world trade — England, Germany and Japan. 

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And every day that our Government submits to the grossly illegal acts 
by which the British navy is crippling our production, shutting us out of 
our neutral markets, hindering the growth of our marine, rifling our mails 
and dictating in our very home ports what we can purchase and sell or 
what we cannot, that same Government of ours is elevating the future com- 
mercial prosperity of England and Germany and Japan and depressing our 
own future trade, prosperity and power. 

The moment the war ends the mobilized industrial plants and the mobil- 
ized and subsidized merchant marines of England, Germany and Japan will 
start in the race for the business of the world's markets and the carrying 
trade of the oceans. And where will WE be in the midst of such compe- 
tition ? Nowhere. 

And do but consider what a position we might have occupied had we 
busily built and bought a Government merchant marine; had our yards been 
running night and day constructing additions to our navy; had we main- 
tained our reasonable advantage in the Panama Canal ; and had we compelled 
England as well as Germany and Austria to respect our rights on the seas 
and made Entente Allies and Teuton Allies alike let our neutral shipping 
pass free and unmolested over the highways of the oceans. Why, at the 
end of this war we would have been in a position of naval strength and 
commercial development from which no thinkable combination of enemies 
or competitors could have toppled us. 

The past is dead and the noble opportunities that were ripe to the hands 
of . statesmen of a high order of intellect have been frittered away by the 
little men in W^ashington who could not even faintly perceive the presence 
of those opportunities, colossal as were their figures when they stood at the 
door knocking for admission. 

There is but one thing to do now, citizens. That is to forget regrets 
and to go earnestly to work to do what can yet be done to prepare the Nation 
for the time of possible military and of inevitable commercial struggle that 
is not far off. 

Let us rouse ourselves like men to the task of compelling this Adminis- 
tration and this Congress to show at least the common sense to begin to arm 
the Nation for its future defense. Let us try to spur these politicians on to 
some practical measures to redeem the country's prestige, to protect our ships 
on their lawful vdyages, to unite the neutral nations in a league for the 
mutual welfare and to concern themselves more about PROTECTING 
AMERICAN RIGHTS than about RENDERING AID AND SYMPATHY 
TO FOREIGN BELLIGERENTS, whether Teutons or Allies. 

It may be, citizens, that you cannot move these Democratic dishes of 
skim-milk to any honorable action. But we can all try. And if we fail, 
there is still something that we can do. We can wait a few months and 
then we can sweep Washington so clean of these little, vain, strutting, futile, 
farcical, spineless, pinheaded Democratic pork-barrel politicians that the 
remnant left will not make even a respectable minority." — N, Y. American, 
Jan. 19, 1916. 

Hearst has advocated a merchant marine for years. Professor Wilson 
favors a merchant marine by Uncle Sam until it pays and then turn it over 
to — well, of course; Wall Street. The railroads were many of them sub- 

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sidized in different ways, but they and their friends object to the Govern- 
ments doing anything of the kind for our ocean commerce and so does Eng- 
land and Germany, and they paid a man of the Associated Press $1,500 a 
year at Washington to keep them posted about what Congress planned doing 
toward a merchant marine, and they always kept the forces divided so that 
nothing could be accomplished. 

Henry Ford. 

If civilization v^^ere to continue on and this nation came to its 
senses as it should and got a merchant marine to efficiently handle 
our ovv^n commerce, then we v^ould have war v^ith England or Japan. 
For Elenry Ford to oppose preparedness here is maudlin senselessness. 
Of all the warring nations. Bulldozing John Bull is the least to be 
trusted and Germany is the most reliable. That royalty of Hingland 
is rotten, useless to its subjects. 

America is About as Military as a Big Fat Worm. 

You may as well argue that a policeman cannot walk the street with 
a club in, his hand without cracking some one's skull as to argue that we 
cannot have a big navy and army without war. These pork-barrel poli- 
ticians and subsidized advocates of unpreparedness are national nuisances. 
This nation is like a big fat sheep near a band of wolves. When those wolves 
get more desperate and hungrier they will not hesitate to get busy on the 
sheep. Hearst has been trying to wake up the sheep for a good many years. 
You crooks and measly politicians and grafters, I am glad that there is such 
a man as Hearst that I can hold up to you to show you how a patriot works 
and fights such a rotten gang as you fellows are. This kind of literature is 
needed here to disillusionize the obfuscated sapheads. 

Defenseless America. 

"The British owe their defeats to the hesitations, indecisions, incapacity 
and blundering of civilian chiefs in London and commanding officers in the 
field. And we repeat — and we wish we had words of literal fire that we 
might burn this lesson into the consciousness of the present Congress — that 
our own naval and military systems are rank with the same fatal faults 
which have brought all these disasters and humiliations upon the British 
arms. Under a most absurd custom, the head of our army is always a civil- 
ian, chosen at intervals for purely political reasons. The head of our navy 
is always a civilian, chosen for purely political reasons. 

"At this time the Secretary of War is a lawyer from a State that pre- 
sented Mr. Wilson to pohtical fortune. Mr. Garrison is an excellent man. 
But he went into office, as his predecessor did and his successor will, without 
even the slightest acquaintance with military science or military necessities. 

"The Secretary of the Navy is a country newspaper editor. Neither 
before nor since being put in command over veteran admirals and officers of 
lesser ranks has any human being been able to discover a reason why this 
vain and ridiculous little editorial person should be at the head of the Ameri- 
can Navy. Now, in times of peace this sort of thing is merely grotesque, 



and we Americans are apt to pass lightly over anything that makes us grin. 
But in times of war this sort of thing is murderously disastrous. And mark 
you, it is NOT IN TIME OF WAR that the disaster begins. The disaster 
comes in time of war. But the beginning is FAR BACK IN TIMES OF 
PEACE. The whole system of making the Army and Navy the football of 
politics is criminally — yes, and treasonably — stupid and wrong. At this very 
moment the corpses of a hundred thousand gallant men, whose lives were 
literally thrown away in the hopeless campaign on the Gallipoli Peninsula, 
are a dreadful commentary upon this inexplicable and almost incredible folly 
of subordinating military establishments to the authority and direction of 
civilians who are the mere accidents of contemporary political luck or 
chicane or both. 

"The direction of the Army and Navy, the distribution of troops, the 
promotion of officers, the preparation and maintenance of equipment, the 
preparation and recommendation of estimates and the whole management of 
our naval and military affairs should be in the hands of trained and experi- 
enced army and navy officers, subject only to the constitutional authority of 
the President and the Congress. Can anything more grotesque or ridiculous 
be imagined than an army commanded by a chancery lawyer and a navy headed 
by a country newspaper editor? And this is what comes, in peace, of sub- 
ordinating even the nation's defenses to the wretched game of party politics — 
that most contemptible pursuit. 

"The second fundamental cause of the British defeats we Americans 
should also take seriously to heart. That cause has been the lack of trained 
subordinate officers." — N. Y. American, January lo, 1916. 

Prof. Wilson's administration is one of the most expensive in the history 
of the country in times of peace and with practically no constructive work 
to show for it — only pork barrels — the navy allowed to drop behind for pork. 
Public office is a public graft with the measly Democratic party. We have 
spent enough on our grafting politicians to have had a navy equal to England's. 



The Safety of the Country. 

Mr. Hearst said: "Our persistent appeals for the safety of the country 
met with apathy in the White House and disregard in the House of Con- 
gress. Politicians masquerading as statesmen preferred to squander millions 
where the money would bring them local applause and votes rather than 
to spend millions where the money would bring the nation safety and insure 
the dignity and the honor of the Republic. There never was a more dis- 
couraging task than the long, long efforts of the Hearst papers to awaken the 
country to its precarious condition, and to awaken Administrations and Con- 
gresses to the plain dictates of patriotism and common sense. Because we 
showed, day after day, the nation's perilous weakness we were denounced 
as being traitorously disrespectful to the Government — as if to roughly 
waken a sleeping man upon whom a lion or a snake was creeping was dis- 
respectful to him. Because we plainly told the people that their representa- 
tives were more solicitous to serve corporate interests and to insure their 
own petty personal political success than they were to serve the nation and 
to insure its safety, we were accused of political treachery — as if the success 

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of this party or that party should weigh anything at all when put in the 
scales over against the welfare and the security of the Republic itself. 

'Thus maligned, accused of every conceivable base motive, misrepre- 
sented by every device of liars skilled in their trade, we went steadily on 
with the campaign of education which was meant to save the nation, con- 
fident in the rectitude of our purpose, confident of the verdict of time, con- 
fident in the ultimate approval of the American people. 

"Now, standing in the full sunlight of success, seeing everywhere about 
us an awakened people determined to prepare the nation against any 
attack of any enemy, hearing the arguments and the appeals we have used 
for twenty years suddenly become the shibboleth alike of politicians and 
of patriots, we ask you, citizens, if time has not justified our purposes and 
our policies and if we have not served well and usefully the Republic ? Now, 
we do not say these things boastfully, nor to win applause, but because we 
desire, by the force of this powerful example, to impress deeply upon your 
minds, fellow citizens, the fact that the policies of the Hearst papers are 
permanent policies, and right policies." — N. Y. American, October ii, 191 5. 

Hearst the Pioneer Preacher of Preparedness. 

Hearst preached preparedness when the pedagog was preaching free 
trade and other theories to university kids. Hearst preached preparedness 
long before Wilson put the industries of the country on the bum with his 
free trade theories. The place for theorists is in universities and not at the 
head of our government where w^e need a practical, efficient man like 
William Randolph Hearst. Hearst has never been known to break his 
pledges and always raises hell with any politician that does. Hearst has the 
backbone of Andrew Jackson. A while back this administration suppressed 
everything it could that urged preparedness; but now it needs a slogan for 
St. Louis and, as all the old pledges are busted or unfulfilled, they have got 
to make a new pledge and so it is, hurrah for preparedness. Hearst was 
for preparedness when this pinhead administration was for pork and more 
pork, even cutting out naval target practice to save for pork. After such a 
record of peanut politics the N. Y. World, January 28, 1916, says: "When 
President Wilson goes before the country pleading for national defense he is 
entitled to a hearing such as no other man has a right to command or to 
expect." 

There is one pledge that this administration has not broken yet, and 
that is the one-term plank, not broken yet except in intention. If the fool 
voters come to their senses in time the Professor will suddenly find need for 
that plank. A commercial war such as the world never saw will follow this 
war, the climax to the competitive system; industrial depression will follow 
that commercial war. Commercial war between England and Germany pre- 
cipitated this military clash of England's with Germany. But the sapheads 
here do not know beans when the bag is open. 

He Wished a Lion Had Gotten Roosevelt. 

This war has been a godsend to this bungling administration. A busi- 
ness man down south while explaining, before this war, how the different 

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industries there had been crippled by this tariff, said: "Personally I have 
nothing against Theodore Roosevelt, but I wish a lion had got him while 
he was in Africa. It was his personality that defeated Taft and gave us a 
college professor, a master of rhetoric and a theorist, and this fool tariff 
has tied me up tight." Before this war this tariff shut up factories here and 
did not lower the cost of living, and it caused a heavy trade balance against 
this country which necessitated heavy gold shipments to Europe and was 
very disastrous. Men in Louisiana worked to elect Wilson and then went 
out and committed suicide after the fool tariff was handed them. It did 
not reduce the price of sugar; but it reduced the revenue to the government 
$60,000,000 per annum. Those who voted for Roosevelt and for Taft voted 
for protection and far outnumber those who wanted a "change." So it is a 
minority administration as well as one of unprecedented gall. And remem- 
ber that I have not forgotten that we had Teddy Roosevelt. This administra- 
tion has not encouraged home production except in implements of hell to 
destroy human life, and it is more anxious about selling ammunition and 
delivering it than about selling cotton. This tariff turned the trade balance 
against us which was only overcome by the bloodiest war in history. There- 
fore this carnage in Europe is a godsend to this bungling administration, 
which deserves to be buried good and deep. 

"After the Wilson tariff law, the balance of trade set strongly against 
this country, and at the opening of the war the balance of trade against us 
amounted to something like $200,000,000. Our factories were closing, our 
banks and business enterprises were cramped for money, and the Government, 
like many individuals, found expenses greater than income. 

"Then came the war in Europe. Every foreign nation wanted gold. 
Our debt for the goods imported in such a flood under the Wilson tariff was 
payable in gold or goods. Our exports, being shut oft' during the early days 
of hostilities, could not begin to discharge any considerable portion of this 
debt. In a few weeks more than $100,000,000 in gold was shipped, and our 
financial situation was unmistakably dangerous." — N. Y. American, November 
19, 1914. 

We never had a Democratic tariff' yet that did not play hell with the 
industries of the country and the U. S. Treasury. That is one of the main 
reasons why we had to have a war tax. As Hearst wrote, September 20, 
1914: "War or no war, the Democratic party's tariff' policies were proving 
failures. Before war in Europe was declared, or even contemplated, the 
balance of trade was showing immensely against this country. Our export 
balance had decreased over a quarter of a billion dollars in seven months. 
Gold was being exported in quantity. The income tax had proved insufficient 
to compensate for the reduction in the tariff revenues. Foreign goods were 
coming into our country, perhaps not in sufficient quantities to raise an 
adequate governmental revenue under the reduced rate of taxation, but cer- 
tainly in sufficient quantities to deprive our American manufacturers of their 
home market and our American laborers of employment. 

"American men out of employment were parading the streets. Ameri- 
can business men in bankruptcy were putting up their shutters. American 
factories were closing and discharging their employees, and, instead of 
America shipping more goods abroad than before the reductJon of the tariff, 

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America was importing more and shipping less, with the balance of trade 
going more and more to our disadvantage. . . . 

"With our home markets secured through legitimate protection and 
foreign markets obtained through intelligent reciprocity our production would 
be immense and our prosperity correspondingly great. 

"Then, with a merchant marine to carry our products to all parts of the 
world and a mighty navy to protect our ships and our shores, America could 
be in the dominant position which the enterprise and intelligence of its 
people, if not of its Government, entitle it to hold. Why can not the 
Democratic party abandon its theories which have proved false, its policies 
which have proved fatal ? Why can it not cease forever taxing our producers, 
forever restricting, restraining and retarding our production? Why can it 
not embark upon a new and enlightened policy of intelligently encouraging 
our production, of adequately transporting our production and of constantly 
enlarging and retaining the markets for our production at home and abroad? 
In this way lie progress -and prosperity for the party, for the Government 
and for the nation." — William Randolph Hearst. 

Hearst Papers on Peace and the Hypocrisy of Wilson's Neutrality. 
Sane, Statesman-like Views of Wm. Randolph Hearst. 

Very soon after the war broke out it became evident that each of the bel- 
ligerents would be short of money before many months had elapsed. It was 
also evident that sooner or later loans would be sought in America. 

The prevailing opinion was that Germany and Austria would be first to 
seek loans, since England, France and Russia had piled up nearly twice as 
much gold in preparation for war as had the Teutonic empires. 

In no long time it turned out that a German loan was sought to be floated 
in this country. Under these circumstances — the Germans actually seeking 
a loan and England and France being probable loan seekers — certain Ameri- 
can bankers inquired of the Administration whether the Government would 
look with tolerance upon the making of war loans by Americans to foreign 
belligerent powers. The answer was an emphatic negative. 

In exact words of Mr. Wilson these bankers were told that any efforts 
to finance loans for belligerents during the progress of the war "WOULD 
BE INCONSISTENT WITH THE SPIRIT OF NEUTRALITY." 

The Hearst newspapers were in hearty accord with many of President 
Wilson's utterances during the early period of the war. They were in accord 
with President Wilson's public appeal to all Americans to preserve strictly 
impartial neutrality. They were in accord with President Wilson's express, 
official statement that a PROHIBITION of the shipment of arms and muni- 
tions to belligerents outside our borders was "THE BEST PRACTICE OF 
NATIONS IN THE MATTER OF NEUTRALITY." They were in accord 
with President Wilson's earnest appeal to all Americans TO JOIN IN 
PRAYER AND IN EFFORT TO BRING ABOUT PEACE IN EU- 
ROPE. . . . 

Where Hearst publications stood THEN, they stand NOW. As Mr. 
Hearst said in his direct appeal to President Wilson on August 1 1 : 

"We are not partisan in our 'principle,' President Wilson. 

"We are not Pro-German or Pro-British, Mr. President. 

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"We stand for abstract principle and for its CONCRETE APPLICA- 
TION IN NEUTRAL, IMPARTIAL AND ABSOLUTELY JUST AND 
RIGHTEOUS MANNER." 

Those are the grounds upon which the Hearst newspapers stood with 
the Administration in the early period of the war. 

That the Hearst newspapers no longer stand in company with the Admin- 
istration upon those grounds of fair neutrality and national righteousness is 
not the fault of the Hearst newspapers. They stand now exactly where both 
they and the Administration then stood. The attitude of the Administration 
has changed — the attitude of the Hearst papers has not. The Administration 
no longer deems it the "best practice of nations in the matter of neutrality" 
to discourage the exportation of arms and munitions to foreign belligerents. 

It believes in encouraging not only the ordinary manufacture and sale of 
weapons and ammunition, but the most EXTRAORDINARY efforts to supply 
belligerents with these means of murder in IMMENSE QUANTITIES. It 
no longer believes that floating foreign war loans in the United States is 
"inconsistent with the spirit of neutrality." The Administration has just let 
it be known through the Secretary of State that the Government looks with 
favor upon the efforts of the British Commission to negotiate in this coun- 
try the unprecendented war loan of a thousand million dollars. 

That the Administration is no longer in favor of praying for peace we 
will not affirm. But we do affirm that a prayer for peace is an insult to the 
ear of God when the Administration employs its power to promote the ship- 
ments of arms and the loans of millions, which alone make the prolongation of 
war possible and which alone prevent the early making of peace. 

These statements are not partisan political declamation. They are plain 
statements of "INDISPUTABLE AND UNDISPUTED FACTS." If the 
people of the United States want the European war prolonged, they can pro- 
long it for months, possibly for years. All they need to do is to supply the 
European governments with ammunition and money. 

The European governments will supply the men to be butchered. They 
will supply the victims of wholesale murder, if we will make the weapons of 
wholesale murder and lend the money to continue the murderous use of those 
weapons in the full force of their destructiveness over a sufficiently protracted 
period. 

What else can be said of the attempt to borrow one thousand millions 
in this country save that it is an attempt to prolong the war, and to make the 
war even more hideously murderous and destructive than it is? 

The exact truth is that Mr. Morgan and his foreign allies ask the neutral 
people of the United States to supply four civilized nations of Europe with 
the money and the weapons to destroy two other civilized nations. 

The people of the United States are asked to do for England, France, 
Italy and Russia exactly what the Japanese are doing. The Japanese Premier 
told the Japanese Diet last week that at the peace conference Japan would 
certainly insist on her share of the spoils if the allies were victorious, BE- 
CAUSE JAPAN HAD RENDERED MORE EFFICIENT AID TO HER 
ALLIES BY MANUFACTURING WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION 
THAN SHE COULD HAVE BY SENDING HER ARMY AND NAVY 

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TO THEIR HELP. And what Japan, a confessed ally and declared bel- 
ligerent, is doing is exactly what we are told it is our neutral duty to do. 

A plain-thinking, honest man is hard put to it to distinguish the difference 
between hostility and neutrality, WHEN BOTH RENDER EXACTLY 
THE SAME SERVICE TO THE SAME BELLIGERENTS, THOUGH 
ONE IS A DECLARED ALLY AND THE OTHER A PROFESSED 
NEUTRAL. 

This newspaper abhors a profession of virtue which is diametrically op- 
posed by the professor's deeds. As Mr. Hearst said in the appeal to the 
President to which we have referred: 

*Tf we cannot be conscientious, let us at least be consistent." 

And again, as he said in the same editorial : 

"But this newspaper is in favor of peace, and it believes that THE 
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES are in favor of peace. 

It believes with President Wilson that these people of ours are sincerely 
devoted to 'principle,' and it believes that they do not care whether the opera- 
tion of that principle embarrasses Germany and benefits England or whether 
it embarrasses England and benefits Germany, as long as it is a just and 
righteous principle." 

The Hearst newspapers to-day take the same view of any effort to 
float foreign war loans in this country that President Wilson and the Hearst 
newspapers both took ten months ago. 

We regard any effort to float such a war loan as wholly "inconsistent 
with the spirit of neutrality." The "principle" which President Wilson said 
was right then, we affirm to be the right principle now. We cannot and 
we will not change our principles to suit shifting conditions and impending 
elections. 

The attempt to negotiate a war loan to Germany we regarded with the 
President as an act "inconsistent with the spirit of neutrality." Now that the 
boot is on the other foot, we regard the attempt to negotiate a war loan for 
Germany's enemies as being just exactly as "inconsistent with the spirit of 
neutrality." Our neutrality is not reserved for occasions. 

It is the right neutrality, the just neutrality, the true American neutrality 
which would scrupulously refrain from aiding Germany with arms and money 
to beat England, and would as scrupulously refrain from aiding England with 
arms and money to beat Germany. 

We do not see how any right-thinking American can take any other 
stand. The American financiers who are endeavoring to put one thousand 
million American gold dollars into the war chest of Great Britain are neither 
neutral nor patriotic Americans. — From the editorial Let Us Decline to Pro- 
mote or Prolong This War; Let Us Rather Earnestly Endeavor to Stop It, 
— N. Y. American, September 22, 191 5. 

Compare Hearst Editorials With the Ravings of That Oyster Bay 

Ranter. 

We cannot see how this country, either from a moral or a material view- 
point, can afford to be responsible for the continuance of this European war. 
Yet, if we supply Europe with the arms to continue the war and the money 
to continue the war, we are responsible for the continuance of the war. There 

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is no possible escape from the logic of that fact. As Mr. Hearst said in his 
direct appeal to President Wilson, published in the Hearst newspapers on 
August II : 

"The plain fact is that the people of this nation are either in favor of 
peace or they are not. If they are in favor of peace they should be against 
war and against the supplying of arms to the nations engaged in a needless, 
useless, purposeless war, when they know that those arms are to be used 
to increase the murder and destruction of that war. 

"li the people of this country are not in favor of peace, then they should 
continue to supply arms to the murdering nations and make all the money 
they can out of the murder. But in that case they should stop prating about 
peace. We should cease assuming a virtue which we do not possess and go 
coldly and boldly out to acquire any blood money which may be 'coming our 
way.' H we cannot be conscientious, let us at least be consistent. . . ." 

Citizens, the high and solemn duty which we owe to ourselves and to 
mankind is not to make profits by contributing to the woe and waste of the 
world, not to mint murder into money, not to weigh out to ourselves so many 
millions of gold and silver as the price of humanity betrayed to its agony 
and its crucifixion on the cross of war. 

The high and solemn duty which we owe to ourselves, to God, to man- 
kind and to the ages to come is to be the active, powerful, effectual mediators 
and peacemakers of the war-torn and war-weary peoples of desolate and 
sorrowful Europe. That, citizens, is a task to which we could well address 
our mighty energies, well satisfied that we were fulfilling our duty to God, 
our obligations to mankind and our high part in the preservation of civiliza- 
tion, now and in the centuries to come. We are wholly unable to see how 
good men and good women can take any other view of the duties and obliga- 
tions of our neutral and peaceable nation. We are wholly unable to see how 
any of our public men can urge the American people to continue providing 
still greater sums of money and still larger quantities of arms and munitions to 
prolong Europe's war. We are wholly unable to find an explanation of the 
attitude of the President himself toward this huge war loan that is sought in 
New York. 

Was not Mr. Wilson in the beginning of the war opposed to raising war 
loans in this country to prolong the war? Why has he changed his mind? 
Is the war any less dreadful, and any less murderous, any less menacing to the 
civilization of the white race, after this year of hideous slaughter and de- 
struction than it was in its beginning? Was there any possible reason for 
President W^ilson's wise and humane opposition to raising war loans in Amer- 
ica twelve months ago which is not as forcible, yes, and many times as 
forcible, now as it was then? Is peace not a hundred times more desirable 
in September, 191 5, than it was in September, 1914, when as yet no man, even 
among the military commanders themselves, dreamed of the incredible extent 
to which slaughter and waste were to go? 

And, citizens, the world can have peace if we do our duty to the world. 
Germany wants to make peace, and has offered surprisingly liberal terms. 
Surely the plain people of all the warring nations must desire peace. Peace 
could be concluded in thirty days on terms fair to all if the United States 
would decline to supply arms and money for further conflict. Citizens, ought 

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we not to do that? Is not peace ndt only bettef for humanity, but better for 
us from a merely selfish point of view than war? Can we afford from a 
humanitarian standpoint of view to be responsible for a war that is destroying 
the best races of the world and the highest civilization of the world? Cart 
we afford from the most sordid business standpoint to be responsible for a 
war which is destroying the accumulated weath of the world? 

Wealth and not merely money. Wealth is the accumulative achievement 
of the industry and imagination of man throughout the centuries. Wealth 
is thought embalmed and labor embodied in accomplishment. Wealth is the 
material products and the intellectual and moral results of thought and work. 
All the nations of the world, all the people of the world, share in the wealth 
of the world. The more wealth is destroyed the less there remains to be 
divided and communicated. The world's wealth is money and material, in 
construction and production, in man power, in mind power, in civilization, in 
sentiment, in enlightenment, in achievemet, is being destroyed in enormous 
quantity daily. The world is suffering and will suffer more and more the 
further this destruction proceeds. 

Shall this nation stimulate this destruction, extend this destruction, con- 
tribute to the continuance of this destruction, become morally and actively 
responsible for the protraction of the war while we are hypocritically demand- 
ing peace ? 

Are we so blind in the pursuit of the immediate dollar that we are re- 
gardless or unconscious of the everlasting injury we are inflicting upon the 
world and upon ourselves? If we want peace, let us make peace. The power 
is in our hands. — From the editorial. Can We Afford for Immediate Profit 
to Inflict Everlasting Injury Upon the World? — N. Y. American, September 
21,1915- 

Why the N. Y. "American" Maintains Neutrality. 

"We quote from a letter, which is much too long and rather too 
abusive to be printed in full : 

'Your urging Americans to maintain strict neutrality betv^een 
Huns and allies is base treason to American principles. You know 
well enough that the allies are fighting for equal rights, democratic 
government, liberty and the preservation of the rights of small States.' 

Does this correspondent think that Russia, the most numerically 
powerful of the allies, is fighting for 'democratic government, liberty 
and the preservation of small States'? 

What is Russia but a medieval and tyrannical autocracy and a 
corrupt and tyrannical bureaucracy imposed upon a mass of wretched 
slaves? Where is there a government so faithless, so unscrupulous, so 
cruel and so barbarous? 

For four hundred years, by force, and by perfidy, the Russian 
autocracy has stamped out the independence, the religion, and even 
the very language and literature of one small and helpless people after 
another. Look at what Russia has done to Poland, to Finland, to 
Courland, to Bassarabia, to Persia, to every weak province or State 
upon which she could lay her tyrant hands. 

Does any man in the possession of his senses pretend to believe 
that democratic government, individual liberty and the great cause 

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of civilization would be secured by prostrating more territory and 
more people in Europe under the heel of this wicked, savage, me- 
dieval and semi-barbarous Russian autocracy and bureaucracy? 

As to any of the allies being at war for the preservation of neu- 
tral small States, that is exactly what the King of Greece styles it — 
'cant.' 

The King of Greece knows what respect England, France, Italy 
and Russia are paying to the neutral rights and territory of Greece. 

They have seized his seaports, occupied his islands, forcibly 
blockaded his merchant ships, destroyed his raih'oads and bridges, 
attempted to incite revohition against his rightful authority and hold 
Greece captured against the will of her sovereign and her people. 

The excuse is that military necessity demands the violation of 
Greek neutrality, that all they want is free passage for their troops 
and secure landing points for reinforcements and that they will pay 
for the damage they do when their temporary occupation is over. 

And those are word for word, letter for letter, the exact demands 
made upon Belgium by Germany, and the exact excuses and promises 
made by Germany when she violated Belgian neutrality. 

If the King of Belgium had acted in the fact of overwhelming 
force as the King of Greece has acted, Belgium would be in the same 
condition as Greece is to-day — occupied in contempt for her rights 
and her sovereignty by armed forces, but with the people unhurt by 
battle and war. 

And if the King of Greece had acted as did the King of Belgium 
and offered armed resistance to the allies' violation of Greek neu- 
trality, Greece, as her King truly says, would have been by now an- 
other Belgium. 

Some time, when they cool off, a lot of Americans will realize that 
they have been indulging in hysteria and neglecting their usual com- 
mon sense for the past year or so." — February 3, 1916. 

The Boys in the Trenches Would Be Glad to Have Peace. 

"How about the private soldiers on the firing lines — do they hate 
each other very bitterly?" 

We put this question the other day to a British sea captain, a 
very intelligent man, temporarily resident in New York, in charge 
of the war export business of one of the very largest English shipping 
concerns. 

"Nothing of the kind," said he, emphatically. "Our men and the 
Germans would be trading cigarettes and sweetmeats and visiting 
between trenches if their officers would let them. 

"It's the same in England and in Germany," he continued. "The 
chaps who are calling hard names and crying for more war and more 
blood are the pressmen and others who have never been near the 
fighting and are never likely to be. They are like some of your New 
York papers — bloody-minded fighters at long range and with hard 
names for ammunition. But with the real soldiers it's diflferent. 

"They respect each other's bravery and good fighting, and it's a 

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common saying among our men that the best things for us to do after 
peace is to shake hands with the Germans, and for England to go into 
partnership with Germany and do a world business together." 

This British sea captain is heart and soul a Briton. He has lived 
for years in Belgium, and was in Antwerp when that city fell before 
the German assault. He has traversed the British and French lines 
from end to end. And his words are worth thinking about. 

There is nothing new about fighting men learning to respect and 
admire each other and finally coming to a willingness to fraternize. 

That is exactly what happened in our own great war. Yanks and 
Johnnies often swapped tobacco and other articles of barter during 
impromptu armistices and got along famously well between the routine 
of shooting at each other. 

The chances are that the German, French and British soldiers 
would hold the biggest jollification together that ever occurred if the 
war was suddenly called off and they were permitted to mingle be- 
tween the trench lines which all have so stubbornly and gallantly held. 

In fact, we know of no such ferocious exhibitions of bloodthirst- 
iness and unappeasable wrath as those shown by heady warriors who 
spill ink and blood all over the pages of some publications on this 
peaceful — and perfectly safe — side of the Atlantic— N. Y. American, 
January 27, 1916. 

How Mr. Hearst Worked|to End this War. 

President Wilson, why have you allowed so many months to 
pass without trying to stop this war as Mr. Hearst urged? 

''Good people, this is an awful war. It is the insanity of wick- 
edness. The very rulers and ministers who among them began it, 
are lying to God and to men in the effort to escape the obloquy and 
the guilt of their dreadful deeds. It is a senseless war, from which 
humanity has nothing to hope, a war of national, racial and dynastic 
jealousies and antipathies, a war of greed and rapine. Beginning in 
folly and stupidity, it has degenerated into a universal madness of 
destruction, that threatens to topple our civilization to its fall and 
ruin. Citizens, we owe it to God, to mankind and to ourselves to try, 
at least, to stop this war. And, citizens, we are false to our duty to 
God, to mankind and to ourselves if, instead of trying to stop this 
war, we most wickedly provide the means of prolonging it. Every 
dollar of profits earned by supplying the weapons and the money to 
prolong this war is a wicked dollar, an accursed dollar, stained, in 
the sight of God and in the eyes of all right-thinking men and women, 
with the blood and tears of suffering humanity. 

"Americans, we cannot afford to have our country enriched with 
such money as that. It is the price of innocent blood, the wages of^ 
humanity's betrayal, abhorrent to every sentiment of manly and good 
American hearts. Better were it for our peace, our honor and our 
welfare now and in time to come, that we sank the gold ten times 
over in the depths of the sea, rather than to sell Europe's peoples to 

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suffering and despair and death for wicked blood-money. As we 
have only indignation for those Americans wdio would prolong this 
war, so we have only contempt for those Americans who insist that 
we can do nothing to stop this war. Even if we should not succeed 
in stopping this war, we can at least TRY TO STOP IT. We think 
this war can be stopped. We believe that the President of the United 
States, with Congress of the United States to help and- the unanimous 
consent of the people of the United States back of them both, could 
end this war in sixty days. If the peaceful representations of the 
United States were flouted by these war-maniacs, there is a peaceful 
weapon they will not flout. If the United States should refuse to 
sell any of the combatants supplies and munitions and refuse to lend 
them money, the war would automatically stop in sixty days." — N. Y. 
American, September 30, 1915. 

"Why does our national Government 'palter with the chance 
sublime'? In the whole recorded history of mankind there never was 
a duty more clear, an obligation greater in human affairs than this 
duty to do all we can to stop this war. In the present instance, our 
bloodless participation alone would end this war. Our moral force, 
our national resources exerted on one side, withheld from the other, 
could end this war without the shedding of one drop of American 
blood. Why do Ave hesitate to end this war without going to war?" 
— N. Y. American. Wh}^? It is the gall that we had down at Balti- 
more, that disregarded the will of the people as expressed at their 
primaries. It is to help out the land where the professor's grand- 
parents were born and lived and died, and to suit Wall Street. Look 
up and see how many of the Cabinet are Wall Street men, and 
worked for Morgan. 

Stand by Hearst. 

Hearst is a patriotic American and does not believe in politicians 
overriding the will of the people as expressed in their primaries, 
which is just what this gang at Washington did down at Baltimore. 
This is no lie ; it is rotten political fact. 

"By running our factories day and night and loaning our credit 
and cash in unheard-of sums, we have kept England and her allies 
from being soundly beaten by the Teutons. Now, according to 
Lloyd George, the munition factories of England, Canada, France and 
Japan have been so enlarged that there will soon be no need of Amer- 
ican assistance. So, AS A RETURN FOR SAVING THE ALLIES 
FROM BEING BEATEN, the British navy will sweep the balance 
of our neutral trade off the seas. The British navy has no RIGHT 
to destroy our commerce. But it has the POWER to do these things. 
And the Democratic Administration will not do a thing to protect our 
rights as a sovereign nation. You can depend upon that. How an 
American's heart swells with pride these days when he looks upon 
his flag and reflects that it is still allowed to float over post offfces 
and other public buildings without our Government obtaining per- 

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mission from a British naval officer to hoist it." — N. Y. American, Jan- 
uary 20, 1916. 

President Wilson, Read This. 

**We have follow^ed the President's first and wisest counsel to 
the very letter and observed a neutrality v^hich w^e believe to be the 
right, the sensible and the only honorably patriotic American line of 
conduct in these troublous and dangerous times. 

"And we say to you, citizens, with all possible earnestness of 
conviction, that had the President and all our public men and all our 
newspapers thus followed Mr. Wilson's first counsel of strict neu- 
trality and common friendliness, there would not be any occasion 
for even a whisper of our'becoming involved in this war. 

"And we say to you besides, citizens, that had the Government 
and the press and the whole body of the people followed this same 
neutral course advised by the President at the outbreak of the war 
there would have been peace in Europe now. 

"It is only the coward who swaggers and boasts. Brave men 
do not need to brag and bluster. Cheap bombast and mock heroics 
are not becoming to the sons of such fathers as begot most of us. 

"We Americans can afiford to be compassionate and forbearing 
and neutral and peace-keeping for the simple reason that nobody on 
earth doubts our courage or thinks for a moment that we are afraid 
to fight when a good cause and the high and imperious voice of 
honor demand that we fight. 

"Now, it seems to us, citizens, that the conditions which fill us 
with just pride — our courage, our riches, our numbers, our intelli- 
gence, our commanding position among the great Powers — all point 
to our imperative duty in this hour of Europe's torture and cruci- 
fixion on the dreadful cross of war. 

"That duty is to use all the power and influence of this Nation, 
in conjunction with all the other neutral nations, to put a speedy end 
to the war. 

"The Government of the United States should accept the pro- 
posals of Sweden and of the Argentine Republic that this Nation call 
a conference of all neutral Powers AND FORM AND HEAD A 
LEAGUE OF NEUTRALS for the protecti«^ii of neutral rights and 
the promotion of peace. 

"As a matter of justifiable self-protection and self-defense, the 
neutral nations should enter into a league to bring about peace by 
persuasion and mediation if possible, and by a policy of non-inter- 
course and economic compulsion if persuasion and mediation are lost 
upon these rulers who are butchering Europe's peoples and destroying 
the prosperity and imperilling the peace and security of every neutral 
people. 

"It is idle to say that a league of neutrals could not bring about 
peace. 

"The war in Europe could not continue sixty days if the United 

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States, the Scandinavian kingdoms and the South American republics 
refused to trade with and to supply the nations at war. 

"Both England and Germany would be absolutely helpless to con- 
tinue their insane mutual destruction if neither could get food, fuel, 
metals or munitions and weapons of war from the neutral world. 

"The mere threat of non-intercourse, if vigorously made by a 
league of all the neutral nations, would automatically end the war." — 
N. Y. American, March 9, 1916. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 

How England Deceives Americans. 

The Game and Tricks Fully Exposed King Peter of Serbia, a Martyr 

of German Militarism. 

. "King Peter of Serbia is fast becoming a sentimentally pathetic figure 
of fallen goodness, under the deft manipulation of part of the press. Yet, 
unless memory is at fault, this is the same Peter who obtained his throne a 
few years ago through the cruel and detestable double assassination of his 
predecessor and the woman who shared his palace. And, unless memory is 
again at fault, this is the same King Peter whom the United States and several 
other civilized nations were brought with difficulty to recognize at all as 
sovereign to whom decent States could send ministers. 

And, unless memory is again at fault, no protest against the recognition 
of this accomplice and beneficiary of the savage murder of his predecessor 
was so strong and so indignant as the protest which found loud voice in the 
London press. It is hard to avoid grinning these days over the agility with 
which so many staid and solemn journals turn the most surprising somer- 
saults. Consider, for example, the case of aged King Peter : A few years ago 
he was a callous assassin. Now he is a heroic figure, whose pathetic fate 
moves all civilization to tears. Yes, it is hard not to grin."~N. Y. American. 

Awful Floggings Given British Women and Children by the Boers. 
Shall the Nation Stand for It? 

To deceive the British people so they would go to war and crush the 
Boers, they had the lies published there that the Boers were flogging English 
women and children. Those stories of the awful treatment of British women 
and children by Boers stirred the people so they could get them to go to war; 
yet they were lies. 

How London Reviled Abraham Lincoln. 

John Bull was opposed to both sides having a fair hearing; lliat is why 
he cut the German cable. That is the same way he acted during the Civil 
War. Mr. Henry Adams, son and private secretary of Mr. Charles Francis 
Adams, our Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain during that critical 
era in our history, in that fascinating book of his entitled "The Edu- 
cation of Henry Adams," says: "London was altogether beside itself on one 
point, in especial; it created a nightmare of its own, and gave it th^ shape of 
Abraham Lincoln. Behind this is placed another demon, if possible more 
devilish, and called it Mr, Seward. In regard to these two men English so- 
ciety seemed demented. Defense was useless ; explanation was vain. One could 
only let the passion exhaust itself. One's best friends were as unreasonable 

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as enemies, for the belief in poor Mr. Lincoln's brutality and Seward's ferocity 
became a dogma of popular faith." You can see how prejudiced and unfair 
the English were about Lincoln and you are doing the very same thing to 
the Kaiser, believing the lying press. This war has demonstrated that John 
Bull is a liar and if he will lie about one thing he will lie about another, and 
that is why he went to war with Germany. 




How England Makes and Unmakes National Reputations. 

By Arthur Moore. 

(The following article by that acute observer of international affairs, 
Mr. Arthur Moore, sets forth very clearly one of the reasons for England's 

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domination of world opinion. It is quite true, as he points out and as every 
American traveler abroad notices, that the American news selected for pub- 
lication by London papers is largely that of matters discreditable to us as a 
social organization — lynchings, murders, large defalcations. Congressional fu- 
tilities, etc. And any man of cosmopolitan habit knows that the news we get 
of Continental Europe, through London, is equally misleading. — Editor of 
The American.) 

England has controlled the news of the world for more than a cen- 
tury. It has been her greatest diplomatic weapon. It has probably gained 
more for her than her huge navy and her fine army. More than once it has 
saved her from serious loss. 

Not one great event but has been seen for the rest of the world through 
English eyes or told to the rest of the world as England wished to tell it. 
The traditional racial characteristics of each of us were fitted upon us by 
England for all the world to learn by heart. And the myth of "British fair 
play" stands above all the characterizations we suffer under as the greatest 
masterpiece of them all. 

Sort of "News" London Transmits. 

Europe knows America and we misunderstand Europe through news 
bearing the London date. Negro burning, the Camorra, bull fights, the Drey- 
fus case, Russian Jew slaughters pass to and fro as "news" through London. 

Since the establishment of the Triple Entente London remade the French 
character for the world. On the date of the Entente's beginning, the myth 
of France decadence became the miracle of French renaissance. From the 
same moment the "Bear that walks like a man" was transformed by Dr. 
Dillon and a host of lesser English into a simple Christian hero. 

Every one remembers the English-told story of the Japanese-Russian war, 
that story that drove us mad with admiration for the Japanese, England's 
allies; that made us forget the great unselfish friendship of Russia in the 
time of our own great war. From London the news poured into our news- 
papers ALWAYS FOR JAPAN, TILL WE SERVED AS ENGLAND'S 
TOOL to help humiliate Russia by a disastrous peace and hated the Japanese 
since the next day after the treaty was signed. 

Our Panama Arguments Suppressed. 

Our own Panama Canal controversy with England is fresh in the minds 
of all. Our side, just if ever anything was just, never was heard by the rest 
of the world, scarcely was heard by us. In every German, French and 
Italian journal we were spoken of as a nation without honor, as cheats and 
thieves by birth and traditions. ALWAYS IN DISPATCHES FROM 
LONDON. The facts were twisted and misrepresented in these London 
"news items," and interviews with every prominent man who took the Eng- 
lish side were sent broadcast until even we ourselves were shaken in our 
faith in our cause. It is all over now, the English control of the distribution 
of international news beats us, that and nothing else. And it is something not 
to be good-naturedly forgotten. 

The menace of German militarism became known to the world, curi- 

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ously enough, about the time that the French became regenerate and the 
Russians finally "tucked in their shirts," that is, about the time of the forma- 
tion of the Entente. From that date onward till the beginning of the war 
we heard more and more of this new menace that had taken the place of 
the Slav hordes as the world-wide bugaboo. And it was not from France, 
but from England that the tales of this new terror came. 

When the Great War broke upon the world we were already prepared 
to believe everything against the Germans, as we were ready to believe 
everything against the Russians when they were fighting the Japanese, allies 
of England. 

A Monopoly of News Valuable. ' 

Newspapers do not manufacture news. They can only select it from the 
best AVAILABLE sources and present it to their readers in the most ac- 
ceptable form. That the best available source of all international news is 
now, as it always has been, England, is the fault of no one. But it is a seri- 
ous fact that ought to be realized fully and constantly by every man and 
woman who reads the newspapers in these times. To-day almost all the 
important news is foreign news, and it is news about events that are changing 
the whole world. Never before has England's monopoly of international 
news been of so tremendous a value to England or so dangerous to the rest 
of the world. 

One need not be pro-German to fear and to distrust the use to which 
England may put this tremendous power that she possesses; one need only 
be a little thoughtful. We may well be called upon as a nation to play a very 
important part in the final adjustments following this conflict. And if we 
open-eyed fall a victim once more to this most. powerful weapon of British 
diplomacy we may fail in playing our part in a manner that we may lastingly 
regret. Day by day our judgment is being undermined by this force in the 
hands of England. But knowing it we ought to guard against it, pro-German 
and anti-German alike, till the war is over. 
To the Editor of the New York American: 

Sir: — I have carefully read the true and remarkable story of Arthur 
Moore, on your editorial page, on "How England Makes and Unmakes Na- 
tional Reputations." Having lived in England, France, Belgium and Germany, 
speaking the languages of those countries, having been born in this city before 
the Civil War, and connected with newspapers, from typesetter to publisher, 
for forty years, I advise every American to read, re-read and thoroughly di- 
gest this article. By far the most potent factor in America in forming opinion 
is the "Associated Newspapers, Limited, London," first, last and all the time 
in favor of England, as witness our Panama Canal fizzle and other interests. 

AMERICAN. 

A Campaign of Lies to Deceive the American People and Get Their 

Support. 

A Chicago newspaper man, James O'Donnell Bennett, said: "I came 
to Germany anti-German. So did John McCutcheon. But London lies and 
German dignity and solidity have about brought me over to the German 
side. If America thinks Germany has gone mad with blood lust, then the 

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American has only surrendered to the most stupendous campaign of lies 
that has been launched from Europe since Napoleon made 'false as a bulletin' 
a proverb. Certainly the Germans are getting a rotten deal from the rest 
of the world in the press reports of this war. I hope America will not 
be inflamed by those reports with the idea that it ought 'in the name of 
humanity' to mix up in the trouble." The famous lecturer and traveler, 
John L. Stoddard, was in Europe, and said he knew from personal experi- 
ence how unreliable and incorrect the news were from the English and 
French sources. Joseph Medill Paterson, of Chicago, was one of the Amer- 
ican correspondents who had been with the German army, and later with 
the Belgians. "Paterson didn't believe the reiterated talk of German atroci- 
ties. He didn't say they were not possible. He only said that patient investi- 
gation, personally conducted, had failed to discover them. He had traced 
yarn after yarn only to find them wholly untrue, or the quite natural exag- 
geration of wartime incidents. Some of Paterson's stuff got back to Ant- 
werp. The Belgians — who are pretty good sports — didn't care. Then the 
English reached Antwerp, 'Did you write this ?' Paterson was asked. He 
said he did and he was frog-marched across the frontier." — Herbert Corey, 
in the New York Globe. 

The brilliant capture of Liege was not only suppressed for three weeks 
in London, but was continually denied. And England spread the lie that 
General Emmich had been killed and that he had wasted so many men 
before Liege that he committed suicide. Captain Edwin Emerson of New 
York was a correspondent for the New York World in Belgium and re- 
peatedly tried to cable to America that General Emmich was alive, but the 
English would not allow that information to pass. No doubt General Em- 
mich felt like committing suicide but not upon himself. 

Mr. Villard, President of the N. Y. Evening Post, says: "To those con- 
versant with the facts as to the stupidity, the one-sideness, and the political 
bent of the British censorship, this war has given a severe shock; it will be 
hard for them to believe again in the good sportsmanship of Englishmen." — 
From Review of Reviews: 

Capt. Granville Fortescue, who was military aide to President Roosevelt, 
is a war correspondent of the N. Y. American and was with the German 
army and also the Russian, and was with the English and French armies. 
He says that the English land fighting force is a very small part of the fight- 
ing force that is in the field. "Because in America we are almost entirely 
dependent upon English sources for our information as to the operations in 
France and Flanders, we get a disproportionate view of the part the English 
troops are playing in the present line of combat, splendid as it must be con- 
ceded the English soldiers are. They cover not more than forty of the four 
hundred miles of front, but the publicity they receive is out of all proportion 
to the effect they may be expected to produce in the general result of the land 
fighting." John Bull is what actors call a hog. 

Edward Fox, and American war correspondent, says : "I am bringing with 
me photographic proof and documentary evidence of Russian actrocities in 
East Prussia. I was also with the German army in Belgium and made very 
careful inquiry into the alleged German atrocities in that country, but was 
never able to come in contact with a single case." 

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English Treachery to United States in South America. 

December ii, 1914. 

Dear Sir: — I have read with interest the article in the last issue of the 
Fatherland, all of which is a splendid presentation of facts which should be 
known to every American, and if known there w^ould not be such a marked 
sentiment of prejudice and partiality shown by the average American in 
regard to the present European troubles. 

Experience teaches that there are two things that Americans are deficient 
in, and that is in their knowledge of the people and nations beyond our 
shoies, as well as American history. I am enclosing, for your perusal, an 
interview which I got up last summer for an American paper, but which was 
not used, as I presume its tenor was too anti-British. 

I have had occasion to investigate conditions in the Latin-Americas 
socially, politically, as well as commercially. The results of my investiga- 
tions proved to me that Latin-America is one of the great fields where the 
nations are competing for commercial supremacy. England, Germany and 
France have controlled those nations in the past and America has just begun 
to make some headway in those lands. The Germans in the last decade have 
made considerable headway, and up to the present European war, were 
driving the English pretty hard. The French, who at one time, were ahead 
of us commercially, have now dropped behind the United States and are 
fourth on the list. Anyone who analyzes conditions in South America com- 
mercially, must have come to the conclusion that war between England and 
Germany was a settled thing some five years ago, for Germany offended in 
securing trade advantages and pushing ahead at such a pace that it seemed 
but a short while when she would displace England. Therefore, her wings 
must be clipped, and all that was needed was simply the time and the oppor- 
tunity which has recently presented itself. 

My observation and experience in those countries is that a North 
American is just as cordiall)^ hated by the English as the German is. Why? 
Simply because North America has entered the arena and is competing for 
business, and is forging ahead. 

That canal building, also, is a "thorn in the side" of England especially. 
It is something that her Britannic Majesty cannot digest, although she has, 
in part, succeeded in taking it away from us. Not in the manner in which 
she stole the Suez Canal through Beaconsfield from the imbecile Khedive 
of Egypt in 1879, t>ut in another and not less artful manner — for while she 
paid the Khedive ten million dollars for a controlling interest in Suez, she, 
on the other hand, has not expended a dollar for Panama and she will make 
"Uncle Sam" maintain and defend it whilst she uses it on the same basis as 
ourselves. In addition thereto, she has her frowning fortress in the West 
Indies that command the entrance of our canal, and with our continued 
asinine policy of unpreparedness, the time may come when, with her usual 
century-long tactics, she will tgg some nation to w^r against us, and then 
take possession of our four hundred million dollar canal and hold it in trust 
for "humanity and civilization," as Japan has recently taken Tsing Chou and 
the Marshall Islands, from the Germans for the benefit of humanity and 
civilization, as she notified America. 

About the time this interview, which I am attaching, was written, ex- 

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President Roosevelt had just visited South America and the English press 
of South America, as well as its London correspondents, were engaged in an 
effort to efface the good impression which he had made, by publishing 
infamous stories about him. About that time also came dispatches from 
London to the Cincinnati inquirer, saying that a revolution was rife in 
Brazil. Tliey claimed that the revolution was in the State of Ceara and 
that the revolutionists were besieging the capital at Rio de Janeiro. As a 
matter of fact, there was a strike of laborers in Ceara, mostly darkies, and 
to show the absurdity of the statement that the Brazilian capital was in 
danger of siege and destruction, is evident when we realize that Ceara is 
2,500 miles north of Rio de Janeiro and can only be reached by sea, for 
there are no railroad communications, and for a land force to march from 
Ceara to Rio de Janeiro they would have to pass through swamps, deserts, 
cross mountains and rivers, which would require a year or more if anybody 
survived the journey. 

These dispatches which appear in North American papers from South 
America are similar to the dispatches which are frequently found in South 
American papers about North Americans — all these dispatches traveling to 
South America or North America via London. London censors all the news 
between North and South America — the method being to show what bad 
actors South Americans are and to show South Americans what barbarians 
North Americans are. The scheme is to keep the two halves of the Western 
Hemisphere apart so that Europe, and England principally, can continue to 
have undisputed control commercially of the Latin Americas. 

Europe owns practically a mortgage on South America, for they control 
all the bonds — Federal, State, Municipal and Industrial. They control the 
transportation, cables, and the news service and they just allow the great 
big boastful United States to have a wee bit of the commerce to keep us 
quiet. 

I hope that the present European troubles will be the means of awaken- 
ing our countrymen, and cause them to investigate and to read and think 
and to digest and to realize that the greatest tyranny to-day in America is 
the tyranny of the press. 

I am not a German, have no German antecedents. My forefathers on 
the paternal side landed in Massachusetts Bay Colony from England in 1637, 
and on the maternal side landed in Louisiana from France about 125 years 
ago. Therefore, prejudices, if I have any, would be against Germany. I. am 
a simon pure American who knows American history and who knows that 
our bitterest, most subtle and hypocritical enemy is England. She has fought 
us with the bayonet and with diplomatic intrigue and duplicity since 1700 
to present date. Germany and America are her two greatest commercial 
rivals. They must be downed, Germany by the sword and America by 
cunning and diplomatic traps and by the sword later on, not of England, 
but some other nation. that will do England's dirty work, for England never 
fights her own battles. She is cunning enough to make others draw the 
chestnuts out of the fire for her. 

Yours very truly, 

SIDNEY STORY, 
President, North & South American Trading Co., Louisville, Ky. 

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x\iientown, Pa., Dec. 14, 19I4. 

My Dear Sir : — As a lover of principles and fair play, for some time in 
the past few months I have had a desire to express to you and your colleagues 
my appreciation of your work in the Fatherland. Indeed, I feel grateful 
in the extreme for the enlightenment your paper has given me on this, the 
most terrible of all wars. And if it were not for the discovery of your 
periodical that has given me a .sidelight to read between the lines of our 
pernicious American press I might still be cursing the Kaiser for this war, 
as I did at the outset. Surely, our blinded Americans must sooner or later 
awaken to all this accursed duplicity and injustice of the British. 

This does not mean, of course, that all newspapers are in this combina- 
tion, but there are an awful lot of American newspapers that are controlled 
by the same influences that control South American newspapers and those 
influences are European and principally British. 

I hope that the present European war will open the eyes of our country- 
men to the importance of controlling our own cables to .South America and 
other parts of the world, as well as controlling our own news service and 
to realize that commerce is war and that England has no more love for us 
than she has for the Germans, and that our turn will be next if they get 
Germany. 

I believe that if your paper had been called by some other name than 
Fatherland it would accomplish a great deal more good, for the word Father- 
land naturally indicates something German and the opposition says, of course, 
he is a German and that is the German side of it. The name should be more 
American and should go out among the readers all over the land as an inde- 
pendent American publication seeking to place the facts before the people. 
This is simply a suggestion on my part. 

Be assured, a few of our cultured Americans appreciate what Germany 
has done for this world. My heart goes out to the German cause. I am 
an American of five generations, with a mixture of the blood of three nations, 
two of which are Allies; but proudest am I of my mother's, whose ancestors 
came from the land of Beethoven ! 

Sincerely yours, 

C. T. RAMSEY. 

Dear Sir: — Since the beginning of the war I have spent my time in 
Europe, visiting France, England, Belgium and Germany as a correspondent 
for the Boston Journal. Returning last week I found what appeals to me 
as being an astounding situation in the newspaper circles of this town and 
in local public opinion. I knew, of course, that American sentiment was 
pro-Ally and anti-German, and that the newspapers w:ere nursing that senti- 
ment. But I did expect to find more than one paper in my home city playing 
fair. 

I am told that one paper here captioned the report of a German victory 
in its regular style and found that its circulation fell off by thousands the 
next day. Its editors have been ordered not to headline another German 
victory during the duration of the war. 

Another paper finds that a pro-German headline of the mildest sort 
can be depended to reduce the next day's circulation by a thousand copies. 
Can you conceive of a rottener state of affairs? Of course the newspapers 

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iire responsible themselves. They dashed into this business with a scratch 
judgment that Germany was all wrong; and having swung the people around 
to that idea haven't the courage to reverse themselves to the extent of 
telling even a part of the truth. I recognize the fact that we are a stupid 
people ; that we are an ignorant people ; that we are impulsive ; that we 
like to let some one else do our thinking for us. I know that a newspaper 
has to be run with both eyes on the business office. 

But with all our belch and bellyache about a free press I have liked to 
think that on a big issue most of our papers would be glad to tell the truth 
at the expense of circulation ; that there was decency enough among the 
American people to listen to the truth without wanting to lynch the teller. 

I have been accused of being pro-German in my writings. I'm not. I 
don't think Germany is all right nor all wrong. But I do think that she is 
entitled to have the truth told about her — the whole truth and nothing but 
the truth. And I don't believe Germans want anything more or any less 
than that. Do they? iM 

If the Germans can stand the truth, why can't the Americans? w 

Yours, 

HALLEDAY WITHERSPOON. 

These three letters are from the Fatherland. 

How the Papers Here Suppress the Facts About the Worst Horrors 
of This War so as to Help England. 

The papers told how awfully the Turks were massacring the Armenians 
and blamed Germany. But such papers did not tell you that all this time the 
Russians brutes were outdoing the Turks and slaughtering the Jews and 
raping their girls and women just because they were Jews and made over 
three millions of them homeless, just because they are Jews. And the papers 
that boast they are fighting so hard for humanity and British liberty sup- 
pressed the particulars of such atrocities. Because Russia is John Bull's pal, 
as he was in Persia. Hearst papers did not suppress such news; but said, 
Oct. I, 191 5, that the barbarous methods of Russia in Poland were "more 
savage than ever characterized the Sioux or Apaches. Has the nation which 
in time of peace cancelled its treaty with Russia, because of ill-treatment of 
the Jews in that country, nothing to say of the present tornado of hatred and 
slaughter which the Czar has let loose upon the Jews of Poland. The hap- 
less peasantry and townsfolk of Poland are being ground to pieces simply 
because they are Jews." 

Jews Got It Worse Than the Belgians. 

That Englishman, Rev. Dr. Aked, says: "The Jew in Russia has suffered 
as the Belgian man or woman has not had to suffer, and — the rest is silence." 
Israel Zangwill in a lecture in London at the Fabian Society, Dec. 10, said: 
"The Russian government has oppressed every racial minority in the empire, 
especially the Jews." The champion of British liberty, Cecil Chesterton, in- 
terrupted the lecture and said he thought Zangwill ought to be shot. — From a 
Hearst paper, Los Angeles Examiner, Dec. 12, 191 5. 

"The persecution of the Jews during this war and at the present time 

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are more brutal and of infinitely greater extent than they have ever been 
before. They are suffering terrible agony. The Jews of this city appreciate the 
editorial utterances of the New York American to the effect that the con- 
spiracy of silence heretofore observed by the nwspapers of America con- 
cerning Russian inhumanity should be broken. Tales of horror as depicted 
in speeches of members of the Russian Duma were so terrifying that it was 
on this account that the Duma was prorogued." — Rev. Dr. J. L. Magnes, in the 
N. Y. American J Dec. 25, 191 5. 

Rev. Dr. Aked, the famous English minister, is now an American citizen, 
and in Copenhagen recently said: ''When we connived at the massacre of the 
Jews by Russia we helped to loose Turk and Kurd on the Armenian people. 
Russia has been — Russia ! She has robbed and ravished and raped at will 
among her helpless Jewish subjects. Torture has been endured to agony. 
Blood has been shed in rivers. What protest has the United States made? 
How angry has the press of America been? What pleading or what thun- 
derous voice has been raised on behalf of the American people? What have 
we done? Practically nothing. We have suffered with the sufferings of the 
Belgian people and cursed the spoliator and the oppressor. 

"Yes; but the Jew in Russia has suffered as the Belgian man or woman 
has not had to suffer, and — the rest is silence." 

All Because Russia Is Ally of Britain. 

"But why? Because of the dreadful alliance of British democracy with 
Russian bureaucracy, of British liberty with Russian tyranny. Because Rus- 
sia is the ally of Great Britain. British censorship has been more complete 
and thorough-going than Russian censorship. Things said and done in Russia 
have been reported by Russian newspapers. They are quite commonplace 
there. The sturdy, liberty-loving men and women of England and Wales and 
Scotland would think them damnable. 

"And so the British 'press has been muzzled. Out of consideration for 
the alliance with Russia, Great Britain has winked at massacre. Out of con- 
sideration for her ally Great Britain, the United States has been silent. And 
having been silent as to Russian atrocities, America finds herself dumb in 
the presence of Armenian butcheries. She cannot raise her voice too loudly. 
She cannot thunder in the ear of Germany: 'Bid the Turk stop this devil's 
work.' Germany would reply: 'You never said to Great Britain, "Bid your 
Russian ally cease his devil's work"; you had best keep silence.' And our 
mouth is closed." 

Declares Criticism By Dr. Aked Just. 

Dr. Aked's indignation is just. Al the time of the acute Jewish persecu- 
tions in Southern Russia three years ago, during the trial of Beiliss at Kiev 
for ritual murder, the American could not obtain trustworthy reports either 
of the Jewish massacres by the Russians or of the trial of Beiliss because Eng- 
land did not wish to offend the sensibilities of her Russian ally and all the 
sources of news controlled by British news agencies or diplomatists were under 
a sort of censorship. 

The New York American sent a staff correspondent to Kiev, Russia, 

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to report the trial fully. All that was necessary was to ascertain the truth 
and print it. 

The dispatches of Mr. Tewson, the staff correspondent of the American, 
from Kiev focussed the attention of the civilized world on this trial. The 
news was of world-wide importance as showing the suppression of truth 
and justice by Russian officials. The long daily cable dispatches sent to 
the American direct from Kiev were cabled back to one fearless English 
newspaper — the London Daily Telegraph — and published in the most prominent 
place in the newspaper, credited to the New York American, the following 
day after they appeared in the American. 

Public opinion is always omnipotent when aroused. The Russian Gov- 
ernment took warning. The persecution of the Jews for the moment ceased. 
Beiliss was acquitted.— [iV£ ^5' EDITOR AM ERIC AN. 1— From N. Y. Amer- 
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CHAPTER XVII. 

AMERICAN PLUTOCRATS 

How We Got That Famous American Beauty Known as 
Mr. Standard Oil. 

"Hundreds of small business men were cruelly crushed by the soulless 
Rockefeller Juggernaut and thrown into bankruptcy and idleness. Rivals 
having been thus heartlessly ruined, the monster gorged itself on the public's 
money, charging prices that meant more millions for Rockefeller than he 
could count." — Mr. Forbes in N. Y. American. 

It was the younger Mr. Rockefeller who charmed his Bible class with 
the metaphor of the trusts and the American beauty rose. Just as the single 
rose in its fullest beauty could be produced only by pinching off all other 
buds that formed upon its parent stem, so the industrial corporation in its 
fullest efficiency, as for example the Standard Oil Company, can be formed 
only by pinching off and throwing into the pit of bankruptcy all competitors 
that threaten its supremacy. So argued Mr. Rockefeller to the disciples that 
heard him gladly. 

John D. Rockefeller is a well-known patriot, whose relations with United 
States Senators as disclosed by the correspondence of his business associate, 
John D. Archbold, greatly illuminated some mysteries of American politics. 
Indeed, the people should be grateful that the whole Government is not pinched 
off that the Rockefeller fortune may reach its fullest efflorescence. — From 
N. Y. American, April 28, 1914. 

See how the bountiful philanthropists used the soldiers to crush the 
miners in Colorado. Bountiful, generous philanthropists that never pay taxes 
if there is a way to keep from it. There is no glory in paying taxes. 

Gasoline and Standard Oil. 

A while back there was a recommendation to tax gasoline by the gov- 
ernment. Mr. Standard Oil reserves all the privileges there are of taxing 
gasoline, and to convince the public of that keeps shoving up the price of 
gasoline. Most people think they know what Standard Oil is, but they do 
not, as they will find, if they read Mr. Klein's book. Standard Oil or The 
People? Price 25c. Address Henry H. Klein, Tribune Building, N. Y. City. 
If the people once woke up to the facts presented in that book, they would 
not long stand for this Standard Oil gang's robbing the public, and more, the 
price of gasoline would drop away down. These bountiful philanthropists do 
not regulate the price by the cost of production;, but by the price they can 
make the damned public pay; hold them up. Well, Standard Oil and the 
Wall Street gang cannot run their hold-up game much longer. 

See how the greedy oil robbers keep boosting the price and charge a 

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cent or two more wholesale for the same oil in New York City than even in 
Jersey and other points. 

What the Administration Is Trying to Do to California. — U. S. Loses 
Suit for Oil Lands Ouster 

Cheyenne, Wye, Feb. 1. — The Federal Government cannot oust 
from oil lands concerns operating prior to President Taft's withdrawal 
order of September 27, 1909, although such companies at that time 
had not discovered oil. Judge J. A. Riner, in the Federal District 
Court for Wyoming so held to-day. 

San Francisco, Feb. 1. — Oil lands in California valued at $300,- 
000,000, and 220 suits filed or in preparation by the Government are 
involved in to-day's decision at Cheyenne. Oil men here said that, 
if upheld, it would make unnecessary any remedial legislation in 
Congress. — N. Y. American. 

There never was any law regarding oil on public lands. But 
prospectors were encouraged by the government to go ahead under 
the placer mining laws. It requires many thousands of dollars to 
prospect for oil. The government encouraged prospectors to go 
ahead ; but now it has brought suit to oust those prospectors who 
began before the lands were withdrawn from entry. It is a gross in- 
justice, especially when they complied with the conditions previously 
accepted by the government. An adequate naval reserve has already 
been made elsewhere and much more than is involved in California. 
Any one wishing full particulars of the trouble there with the gov- 
ernment can get them by writing to The Oil Industry Association 
of California, Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Of course California has 
not been much in sympathy with this bungling administration. 

Andrew Carnegie. 

Thousands of men that worked in the steel mills worked I2 hours a day 
and seven days in the week at bum boarding-house wages. They went on a 
strike at Homestead and were shot down because they wanted more of what 
they produced or shorter hours. That steel company also used the devilish 
rebate to assassinate honest competitors. After Andy from watered stock had 
got his pile, he gave an address and had the nerve to say that money is 
dross — after the company in which he had been the big mogul had nefari- 
ously done these things. After his "Money is Dross" speech, at Redlands, 
California, he came back to New York City and started a fight to have his 
taxes reduced on a little piece of city property. Money may be dross, but 
there is no glory in letting that dross get away from him to pay taxes. When 
any of that dross gets away from him it must toot his Pharisee horn that he is 
an angel of peace (Homestead) and a philanthropist. Separating themselves 
from their dough as philanthropists is easy ; but paying taxes that goes against 
their grain. John D. Rockefeller shows what a good fellow he is. As Prof. 
Woodrow Wilson expressed it, "How he found himself." "It is amazing that 
the class which most begrudge its support to the Government, which fights 
hardest to avoid paying its fair share of taxation is the great propertied class 

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to which the Government renders vastly greater service than it does to the 
citizens of ordinary means." — From N. Y. American, Dec. 23, 1914. 

If Adam had lived to the present time and had accumulated ten thousand 
dollars additional wealth each year of his life, this vast aggregate would not 
equal several individual fortunes which have been amassed in recent years. — 
W. E. Blackstone, in 1898. 

The New York Stock Exchange 

Lazvson and Everybody's exposed the stock exchange, how few in ten 
thousand are allowed to win anything much and get away with it. Then 
if the sucker goes around to the stockbroker and tells what they have done to 
him, they inform him that it is bad form to blow one's brains out in a broker's 
office. 

"Stocks that were selling for $3 a share are selling as high as $100 a 
share. Big men handing chromos to the public — 'swindlers on a gigantic 
scale.' They do not build factories, develop mines, establish new industries, 
employ labor. They trick with stock 'chromos. They take for instance, a 
number of steel concerns. They combine them, give the combination a new 
name and then sell to the public a hundred millions in stock, based on per- 
haps thirty millions worth of property. The whole thing is a scheme of 
gigantic public robbery, based on the public passion for gambling. It is 
deplorable, vicious, criminal enterprise that takes the resources of the country 
from useful channels and pours in the billions of savings to swell the great 
non-productive fortunes." — From an editorial in Hearst's Sunday paper. 

The Rotten and Robberous Railroads. 

It costs a certain amount to build and equip a railroad, and under the 
competitive system that road is entitled to interest on that investment and 
the expenses of operating and upkeep. The road is entitled to that much for 
service, and however enormous the traffic may be the road is not entitled to 
any more than it costs to render that service, that is interest on investment, 
expenses of operating and upkeep. But that was not the way. As the old 
Vanderbilt put it: 'The public be damned." And as Collis P. Huntington 
gaged the rates: "All the traffic will bear." Business was to charge all the 
traffic could stand up under and then issue stocks to the amount that 
the income of the road could pay a dividend on in prosperous times. The 
rates are retained that were established when it was policy to charge all the 
traffic could stand. 

Joseph N. Teal, of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, testified before the, 
Senate Committee on the Interocean Canals that : "Twenty-five per cent, of the 
fruit crop annually is permitted to rot because we cannot get it to the eastern 
markets at rates that justify gathering in. The fruit business in time must 
collapse unless we get rid of our enormous waste. If we had lower rates, a 
market for lower grades of fruit would develop and the people would have the 
advantage of cheaper fruit." Honest, hard-working people must loose much 
of the fruits of their labor, because unscrupulous men pumped in the water, 
and rates have got to be higher than they should be because of the water. 
They tell you rates are higher in Europe. Automobiles are higher in Europe, 

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so they ought to raise the prices here. We can get down to bedrock here 
without gaging ourselves by Europe. The road pumped themselves so full 
of water that they could hardly waddle, and then, when hard times hit the 
business, they get politicians to allow them to dig deeper into the people's 
pockets, because they are carrying so much water. This does not apply to 
roads that are many times more water than capital like the Rock Island. A 
bunch of buccaneers get control of enough preferred stock to vote bonds 
and take the 75 millions captial and let in the water until it swells up to 275 
millions, and there they have 200 millions clear profit. But in the case of 
the Rock Island they ran out of water or they would have made a good thing 
out of it. That Harriman and his gang fixed the Chicago and Alton the same 
way. Then, because they are carrying so much water they must have the 
rates increased. 

"The New Haven Railroad has within ten years lost, through waste, 
mismanagement and general lawlessness, from one hundred to two hundred 
million dollars. Now, that is part of the cost of operation under present 
business standards in the railroad world. The New Haven is not an excep- 
tional but a typical case. The Boston & Maine has had the same history 
recently. So has the Chicago & Alton, which Harriman looted. So has the 
Rock Island and the St. Louis & San Francisco, the Missouri Pacific, the 
Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, and nearly all the railroads in the country. 

"They have been in bankruptcy several times, and huge profits have been 
made by those who put them in bankruptcy and who were given control of 
their reorganization. In the old days this mismanagement not only came 
out of the public ultimately, through an increase in the freight and passenger 
rates, but it used to come in the first instance out of the railroad employees 
themselves; for these wreckers of railroads, when their conspiracy was ripe, 
would apply to a friendly Federal judge — a scallawag whom they had put 
upon the bench — for the appointment of a receiver, and the judge would ap- 
point one of the conspirators receiver to run the road during reorganization. 
The first thing that Mr. Conspirator and Receiver always did was to reduce 
wages on the roads. 

"Now, the New Haven Railroad has lost from one hundred to two hun- 
dred million dollars in a short period by aggrandizing schemes not unlike 
these, in character. If that railroad were on its feet; if it had not lost this 
vast sum of money, and if it had not suffered the consequent loss of morale 
and efficiency, with their train of evils, the New Haven would be amply able 
to meet any increase in the cost of labor, through this demanded decrease in 
the hours of labor, out of its surplus prosperity. Therefore, another answer 
to Mr. Elliott's contention is that the railroads can change their methods; 
can operate a railroad as it was meant to be operated as a railroad, and not 
as the victim of unscrupulous speculators. Mr. Elliott is himself trying to 
do this very thing and is meeting with considerable success. Mr. Heustis 
and the Federal trustees are trying to do this very thing on the Boston & 
Maine, and are meeting with very great success. They have in a year con- 
verted a deficit into a surplus, and in a short time, if its condition improves 
in the ratio of last year, the Boston & Maine will be on its feet again merely 
by decent management. 

" 'When the devil is sick, the devil a monk would be, and when the devil 

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is well, the devil a monk is he.' These periods of depression, followed by 
periods of reaction, repentance and convalescence, have been the history of 
railroads since the first tie was laid on the first railroad. Unless the law 
makes these things impossible, either by a stringency of regulation, which 
we have never yet seen, or by public ownership and operation, then we may 
expect, just as soon as the railroad gets strong enough to stand another 
debauch, to see it fall into the hands of a new set of leeches, who will suck 
it again until it bleeds white. 

"None of the huge private fortunes, the illicit accumulations of which 
out of the railroads have made the operation of railroads so expensive under 
private management, will be piled up under public ownership. Petty graft 
we may not hope to rid ourselves of under public ownership, but it will 
never be huge graft running into tens of millions in single instances and 
stolen by single individuals. It will never be respectable graft. It will 
never be a badge of social distinction. It will never serve as the foundation 
of an influential family. It will never be even safe graft. The Bill Tweeds 
of New York and the Abe Ruefs of San Francisco, and their prototypes in 
Boston, Chicago and everywhere, will go to jail when they are caught. 
These petty grafters will even go to the electric chair when, as recently in 
New York, they are caught mixing graft with murder. For petty graft 
whole communities will not be debauched and defiled. Whole railroads will 
not be wrecked." — N. Y. American, Feb. i6, 1916. 

"The President's gift of fifty millions a year to the railroads. The 
spectacle of the President and his Cabinet lobbying for the railroads is not 
a pleasing one. No Tammany deal wath managers of public service corpora- 
tions in New York was ever more discreditable and no discrimination against 
railroads which we wrecked by criminal directors like the New Haven and 
the Rock Island." — N. Y. American, Dec. 15, 1914. 

"The process of building a railroad and wrecking it is fully understood 
by men who have studied the history of these enterprises. Cities, counties 
and townships appropriate money to pay the cost of constructing the road. 
Unscrupulous men get into its management, deliberately run the road so 
badly that it shows a loss, the stocks which represent the money that built 
the road begin to fall, and these dishonest manipulators and speculators 
quietly buy the stock at bargain prices. When they have thus stolen the 
road they begin to run it more efficiently and to pour water into the stock, 
thus making their millions by a transaction as dishonest and ten thousand 
times more harmful than any for which the worst thief is now confined in 
State prison. Poverty, insanity and suicide have followed in the wake of 
this railroad wrecking by manipulators and stock gamblers. The American 
people to-day are paying hundreds of millions of dollars every year in rates 
and fares on stock which is as fraudulent as a counterfeit bill. 

"Our American public life has been corrupted until we have almost 
ceased to have confidence in the honesty of anybody. Many of our business 
men have been made cowards, and our courts have been caused to forfeit 
public confidence, and thoughtful men made to fear for the existence of the 
Republic itself by reason of the unequal distribution of wealth and power 
through the private operation of our railroads and other public service cor- 
porations." — New York American, March 15, 1915. • 

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Commission Men and Combines Rob Producer and Consumer. 

See how the robbers boosted the prices of food as soon as the war 
started. See how they made the poor of N. Y. City pay as high as $20 a ton 
for coal. "Increased prices caused by the intervention between producer 
and consumer of monopoHstic intermediaries, trusts or forestallers of mar- 
kets, taking for themselves all the tribute extorted from the consumer and 
giving the producer no share of the higher profits, are unnatural and wholly 
hurtful. Those engaged in the operation are criminals as burglars or 
murderers are criminals. They should be made to pay the penalty of their 
crimes, and they should be made to understand right now, before prosecu- 
tion, before investigation even, that they can no more compound their 
sentences in the event of conviction by payment of a fine than a murderer 
can in the same way escape the gallows." — N. Y. American, Aug, 28, 1914. 

Boodle Rules To-Day. 

Mr. Lippman in his "A Preface to Politics," says: "Ours is a problem 
in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned 
at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to 
misleading a bewildered people." Have you forgotten the exposures Hearst 
gave of how that saintly Standard Oil controlled U. S. senators and other 
officials. During the last twenty years the man who has been around and 
not seen vote-buying or heard men say: They took his money and he had 
a right to get something for it — I say the man who has not seen vote-buying 
or heard men openly talking about what different men got for their votes, 
he must be very obtuse, whether in Chicago or New York or Jersey or West 
Virginia or Ohio. Terre Haute, Ind., or Danville are not the only places 
votes are bought and sold. It is a common thing to get the offices, before 
and after. In Chicago, when Bryan ran the second time, I saw that some 
one was buying votes and stepped up to a man and said some one is buying 
votes here. I stood off and watched a little longer and that very man I had 
spoken to was the one who was passing out the dough. Now brag like a 
hypocrite that this rotten republic is free. What does your vote amount to 
with a rotten gang down at Washington? See how McReynolds, when he 
was Attorney General, sat upon the lid and tried to prevent the exposure 
of the gang that looted the New Haven Railroad and Mr. Wilson boosted 
that kind of a man on to the U. S. Supreme bench. What rules down there? 
At the time some of you big robbers were engineering the panic of 1907, 
Hetty Green, the financier, in an interview to the N. Y. World, said: "The 
financial situation is going to the devil. Poor people are suffering all around 
us. Stock watering is in everything. The innocent are being squeezed. 
There was a time the oppressors of the innocent went to jail. It is ruinous. 
Young men of the present day will know what it is; you all will be fighting 
soon and not a foreign foe." 

A retired banker: "We in America are moving fast toward social revo- 
lution. Conflicts between labor and capital are assuming the proportions of 
civil war." — Frederick Townsend Martin. The coal miners' strike in Colo- 
rado and West Virginia have been of that nature. In 1898, after the coal 
miners in Illinois went on a strike and lost, several thousand of them went 
out through the farming, section and helped themselves to the farmers' cattle 

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and hogs and dug up potatoes. Too big a bunch for a farmer to stop. In 
the last strike in Pennsylvania the miners wanted to enforce conditions that 
would damage the mines, which the native-born miner opposed; so the 
foreigners held meetings excluding the native American. Such cattle as 
that is only fit to be ruled by the bayonet. 

John M. Harlan, son of Justice Harlan of the U. S. Supreme Court, says: 
"If dishonest wealth shall not cease to exploit the ignorant and the weak, 
the inevitable result, sooner or later, must be that the ignorant and the weak 
by sheer force of numbers, will take the law into their own hands and with 
results that we may well shrink from contemplating. Let us realize that 
the greatest menace to-day to the supremacy of the law is the subtle anarchy 
of selfishness by the strong and crafty, sometimes secretly violating the 
low, at other times observing the forms of law, would in fact subvert law 
and justice." 

The late Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, famous in Europe and America as the 
leader of American society, says : "America is like France on the eve of 
her revolution. My opinion is that if our country continues in the way it is 
drifting there is grave danger — awful danger ahead. The trouble is that 
as a whole our country is almost without standards and ideals and our 
traditions are fast going from us. We have lost the greatest of our ideals — 
in fact, the one thing that makes ideals possible — we have lost our religions 
consciousness. I have seen w^omen in Paris and London whose un-Ameri- 
canism has sickened me. They go about among those foreigners with a 
contemptible disregard of patriotism that makes them the laughing stock of 
the very people with whom they are mixing — aping. All these foreigners 
care for is what they can get out of us, and then with a contemptuous shrug 
they go away to their own countries to enjoy it. I have known and admired 
many foreigners, but there is no doubt in my mind that we have catered too 
much to them, and have shown too little respect and honor for our own 
country and for our own good American tradition." 

New York City Hall Owned by Big Crooks. 

The Thompson Committee has, in spite of the punk statesman up at 
Albany that was so faithful to McCall, uncovered enough muck to make a 
fine stink around the City Hall. But all that subway graft will not be ex- 
posed. 

"Over TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS of the people's money— of 
YOUR money, taxpayers — have gone into the hands of 'insiders,' of company 
officials, of favored lawyers, of scheming financiers and, there is a strong 
reason to suspect, of corrupt public servants. 

"The banking house of Morgan appears to have devised the most in- 
genious system of all — getting a huge bonus for marketing the bonds and 
then retaining the money by paying the Interborough 2^^ per cent, interest, 
while the Interborough paid the bond buyers 5 per cent, for the same money." 
— N. Y, American, February 9, 1916. 

"The Gillespie company nominally receives a commission of 15 per cent., 
while the actual contractors are doing the work for about 4 per cent. The 
public will be inclined to give Mr. Morgan credit for public spirit in stopping 
the Shonts-Stevens proposed 10 per cent, grab of the taxpayers' money when 



Mr. Morgan explains why he could not and did not stop the Gillespie grab 
of 15 per cent. The 'waiting time' charge of $500,000 made by J. P. Morgan 
& Co. may have been perfectly legitimate in itself. But the public wants to 
know and means to know why that great sum should be charged to 'con- 
struction cost, and thus saddled upon the taxpayers of New York instead of 
being paid, as it ought to have been paid, from the gigantic profits of the pro- 
moters and bankers who engineered this colossal bunco game." — N. Y. Amer- 
ican, February 15, 19 16. 

"Somewhere between the time when Mr. Prendergast voted against the 
first Interborough contract and so defeated it, and the time when he voted 
for the second Interborough contract, and so carried it, Mr. Theodore P. 
Shonts promised some person or some persons two million dollars, which 
sum was eventually secretly taken from the Interborough cash on hand and 
then charged to the city of New York as construction expense." — N. Y. 
American, February 11, 1916. 

Judge Gary, that coat of whitewash you applied a while back is getting 
pretty streaked. Judge Gary said: 'Tt is our duty to disabuse the public 
mind of the idea that men of prominence, of wealth, of leadership in finance 
and industry are inimical to the public interest, and to convince people in 
general that they are doing things that really advance the best interests of 
the country." — From N. Y. American. Yes, Judge, it is time to slather on 
more whitewash. 

Voters, the New York American is my political New Testament. Judge 
Gary is at the head of a beneficent institution that had water pumped into it 
and then squeezed out and pumped in some more — in all about fifteen hundred 
million dollars' worth. So the Judge is in a position to- fully appreciate what 
these bountiful cusses have done for the best interests of the country and 
especially the workingmen and the dear public. A robberous tariff and Win- 
chesters helped the original concern which was also efficiently nurtured by 
an elaborate rebate system, of course all for the best interests of the country. 

"A wave of lawlessness is sweeping over the world, over nations and 
classes and individuals. America and Americans are beginning to be en- 
gulfed. . . . Among those alarmed by the multiplying demonstrations of law- 
lessness are high financiers who have not always shown a disposition to obey 
the law of the land. Ten years and longer ago law-breaking was an every- 
day practice of a few eminent and successful capitalists. They cared not a 
snap for law so long as they could employ conscienceless lawyers to tell them 
how they could do unlawful things and escape punishment. Such men did 
much more harm to society than bomb throwers." — N. Y. American. 

Vote the best you can, the big robbers do not go to the pen nor even 
to jail. The Sherman Anti-Trust law is not allowed to harm them. But 
it is made to apply to the laboring men to whom it was not intended to apply, 
while the big crooks are immune and it is a sacrilege to even tell the truth 
about them and their puppets down at Washington. _The looters of New 
Haven and Rock Island and the Chicago and Alton and a thousand and one 
other criminal jobs do not disgorge or get sent to the penitentiary. It is the 
lawless of the strong, the shiftiness of the puppets they boost into office, and 
the forever frustrating of justice that will precipitate lawlessness by the 
masses when the industrial depression hits this country after the commercial 

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war between nations which will follow this carnage. See the grafting pol- 
iticians betray and rob and loot the city of New York with their devious 
real estate deals and build subways and turn them and the streets over to big 
robbers, and then go grafting still deeper into the pockets of the taxpayers, 
when these public utilities should be owned and operated by the city to 
defray municipal expenses and save the taxpayers instead of fattening a 
heartless bunch of irresponsible, lordly hogs that defy public rights. 

See the Marginal Railway deal of this administration and the twenty 
millions more on Schoharie Water Site and the Court House Site and other 
extravagances to loot the taxpayers. No end of millions spent on politicians 
and their friends and crooks, while the public schools have to be curtailed 
and night schools also. Standard Oil and the N. Y. Central must be allowed 
to have what they want. New York City has had a chance several times to 
get a man for mayor that is a manager of big enterprises and is known to 
stand for honesty and efficiency in public office, but the robbers and grafters 
always knifed him, and that man is Wm. Randolph Hearst. 

H you want to see the thousand and one ways they have of looting the 
taxpayers read that book, "Bankrupting a Great City," (the story of New 
York), by Henry H. Klein, Tribune Building, N. Y. City, price 40c., and you 
get your money's worth. Mr. Klein was chief investigator for the Alder- 
manic Cleaning Committee (N. Y. C), 1907; The Citizens' Police Committee 
(N. Y. C), 1912; The State Civil Service Commission (N. Y. City Investiga- 
tion), 1914. It may be some satisfaction to the taxpayers to know how the 
game of flim-flamming the taxpayers is worked. You can see where much 
of your money goes and who gets it. See how the crooks stood behind that 
Greater New York City idea so as to give their grafters a chance to loot the 
outlying territory, and how the grafters fought last year to not let any of it 
get away after the taxpayers had been unmercifully bled. 

These Immaculate Cusses and Muckraking. 

Whenever one exposes these big cusses and their "damnable rascality," 
some of their champions shout muckraking ! The City of New York will have 
to spend more than one hundred millions to finish its subways. Yet the big 
crooks fixed it so the city will get no income before 1954. And just remember, 
Tweed was sent up for the little jobs he did. Is not justice a farce today? 
Hearst is still fighting the gang that he has always fought. Yes, it is muck- 
raking to expose such men and their puppets in office. Well, the people will 
do worse than muckraking when the after-clap of this British war on Ger- 
many hits us. Plutocratic lawlessness has about reached its height in this 
British war on Germany. For Wall Street is in it too. 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 

ROTTEN ENGLAND 

British Militarism Blamed as Real Cause of the War. 

(From N. Y. American, November 14, 1915.) 

Ruling Classes Precipitated Conflict to Save Themselves From Just 

Wrath of Workers, Asserts Noted English Writer in 

Bitter Article. 

British militarism and the British aristocracy are denounced among the 
causes of the European war in a remarkable pamphlet just received in this 
country. 

The pamphlet was written by C. H. Norman, English publicist and 
author. It is a reply to Robert Blatchford, also prominent British writer, 
who attacked German militarism and critics of the British Government. It 
reveals "horrors of war," such as exist now and have existed in almost every 
great conflict. 

Mr. Norman's pamphlet was printed last Spring by the National Labor 
Press at Manchester. The labor press was raided by the police and the 
entire issue of the pamphlet seized. Subsequently the copies were ordered 
destroyed. 

The case was tried in secret and the ground for official action was not 
divulged. Following are extracts from what is believed to be the only copy 
of the pamphlet to reach the United States: 

An introduction to the pamphlet describes it as a reply to attacks of 
Mr. Blatchford upon those socialists and Hberals who are opposing the 
British war party. Mr. Blatchford is quoted in the Weekly Dispatch as 
having asked these questions: 

"Can one imagine General French or Admiral Jellico indulging in the 
vulgar bombast or silly boasting with which Von Hindenburg has just been 
favoring America and Europe? 

"Has any enemy ever accused British soldiers of cutting off women's 
breasts and babies' hands? 

"Had Louvain been a German town captured by British troops, would 
Louvain have been burned or its people murdered? 

"Would Germany, in the place of Britain, have granted self-government 
to South Africa after the Boer war? Would Germany have conferred home 
rule on Ireland?" 

Reply of Norman. 

Mr. Norman's reply follows: 

"Mr. Robert Blatchford, certainly, as a representative jingo journalist, 

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has been doing nothing else but Hbel the German Kaiser, the German army, 
the German navy, the German people and the German literature. 

"Enough has been stated to indicate the character of the article which 
called forth my strictures. 

"In my judgment, all forms of militarism are atrocious. It is possible 
that the German methods may be harsher than those of other countries, in 
that they are more systematic, but that is the only distinction between German 
militarism and other kinds of militarism. It is so trifling that it is hardly 
worth while specially denouncing German militarism while remaining silent 
concerning the fearful evils that flow from every kind of militarism, 

"In this war my position is simply that I am on the side of the British 
people; not on the side of the British ruling classes, who have plunged this 
country into the most fearful and useless conflict that Britain ever embarked 
upon. 

"I am not pro-German, pro-Russian, pro-French, pro-Belgian, but I am 
pro-English in the sense that I know no reason why the British workers 
should be slaughtered in the interests of Russia and France, two countries 
which attempted to induce Germany to join in a combination in 190 1 to 
destroy Great Britain while engaged in the Boer war. It was to the credit 
of the Kaiser that he rejected those proposals. 

"As Mr. Bonar Law wrote in his letter of August 2, 1914, which he 
carefully suppressed until the following December, Russia and France are 
the countries Britain is supporting — not Belgium. There was not a word 
about Belgium in his letter. 

Belgians Are Attacked by British. 

"British warships have been recently engaged in bombarding Ostend, 
an unfortified Belgian town, and 'the greatest air raid' has been directed 
against that same Belgian town. 

"Did the British naval and military authorities take any precautions to 
prevent the killing of the Belgian inhabitants of Ostend? It is not easy to 
remember, nowadays, that the violation of Belgium was the alleged casus 
belli against Germany ! Presumably, British air bombs would destroy Belgian 
houses as efficaciously as German air bombs would blow up British houses. 

"The only people in Britain who will benefit from the war are the ship- 
ping rings, the armament contractors, the food and coal combinations, and 
all the other robbers, for whom patriotism does not exist. Patriotism is 
for tlie "lower classes,' who are being asked to sacrifice uncomplainingly 
all their hard-won barriers against exploitation and injustice. 

"And what about the war loans and commission? Listen to Mr. john 
Bright, speaking in 1858 words which ring as true to-day as they rang 
then : 'The more you examine this matter, the more you will come to the 
conclusion which I have arrived at, that this foreign policy, this regard for 
the 'liberties of Europe,' this excessive love for 'the balance of power' (and 
the neutrality of Belgium) is neither more nor less than a gigantic system 
of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.' 

"The interest upon war loans is one of the most lucrative sources of 
revenue for the ruling classes, as it mortgages the industries of the people 
for years and years ahead." 

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Principle Laid Down. 

"On the 26th of January, 1864, Mr. John Brown laid down a principle 
which is, in my judgment, absolutely sound: *I will say, further, that if there 
be a government possible in our day that will plunge this country into war 
under the pretense of maintaining the balance of power in Europe and sus- 
tained any kingdom there, be it little or great, I say that government not 
only is not worthy the confidence of the people of England, but deserves 
our execration and abhorrence.' 

"Those are the words which should be written in red letters over the 
portals of the House of Commons as a permanent maxim to guide the con- 
duct of the representatives of the people. 

"Great Britain is being ruined by an oligarchy of reactionary politicians, 
who are imbued with the spirit of militarism, and are prepared to slaughter 
their countrymen to any extent so that the war may be 'fought to a finish'; 
which merely means that their policy may be saved from discredit. 

"Not content with advising Belgium to her ruin, the Asquith-Grey com- 
bination is proceeding upon a financial course which can only be described 
as criminal in its folly. 

"The purchasing power of a sovereign has been reduced to 16 shillings 
in five months, which means that the British financial and capitalist classes 
have been enabled already to levy from the British wage-earners four times 
the amount levied by Germany upon the cities and territories of Belgium. 

"One is expected to remain silent in this state of things, because of the 
alleged unanimity on the 'justice' of the war; but on that subject one may 
as well cite these comments of Mr. W. E. Gladstone on the political wisdom 
of the British ruling classes: 

" *In almost every one, if not every one, of the greatest political contro- 
versies of the last fifty years, whether they affected religion, whether they 
affected the bad and abominable institution of slavery or whatever subject 
they touched, these leisured classes, these educated classes, these titled classes, 
have been in the wrong.' And history is repeating itself!" 

British "Atrocities." 

In the body of the pamphlet Mr. Norman begins with the discussion of 
the destruction of Louvain. He says: 

"As British militarists in this war have not had much opportunity of 
desecration, that outrage cannot be paralleled in Europe except by reference 
to the records of the Napoleonic wars; but the following proclamation was one 
of many issued in South Africa in 1900: 
"*V. R.— Public Notice.- 

" 'It is hereby notified for information that unless the men at present on 
commando belonging to families in the town and districts of Krugersdorf 
surrender themselves and hand in their arms to the imperial authorities b)^ 
July 20, the whole of their property will be confiscated and their families 
turned out destitute and homeless. By order, 

"'G. M. M. RITCHIE, 

"'Captain K Horse.' 

"Nothing approaching the terms of that document has been published 

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yet as having been issued by the Germans as a means of compelling their 
enemies to surrender. 

"The second sample of British militarism is in Egypt (during perfect 
peace) in 1906. It is an account of some executions of some men, whose 




sole crime was that they were defending their sacred pigeons from the guns of 
some British officers. 

"Mr. Norman quotes: 'Atrocities of British rule in Egypt/ by Wilfred 
Seawin Blunt, as follows: 

" 'On a cross solidly constructed at fifteen paces from the gibbet they 



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are preparing the punishment of flagellation. The first sufferer strips to the 
waist, passes his head in the iron collar, and on his bare torso the knrdash 
descends rhythmically to the sound of the voice that counts the blows; the 
bronze skin tumeflies, splits in places, the blood spurts out; it is sickening, 
horrible. 

" 'A second man who succeeds him cries out still more desperately ; the 
third one is literally contorted under the lash ; he loses consciousness. Mean- 
while, the man hanged has given up his ghost. The second condemned fol- 
lows with the same assured step as his predecessor. 

" 'The executions continue. The floggings go remorsely on ; the new 
ropes redden as they lash into the flesh. Yusef Huseyn's legs, in the hanging, 
are broken, Mohammed Gorbashi is undressed crucified, and flogged fifty 
lashes. He gets maddened on receiving the twelfth. His voice is not well 
heard, for a soldier is ordered to press his head down in the opening of the 
cross again.' 

Approved by Grey. 

" 'While Mohammed Dervish Yohran is hanged the executioner puts 
the rope round his neck and administers it wrongly. The condemned man is 
not strangled well, so he cries out on the cruelty of the world.' 

"The British government ordered that the relatives of those punished 
in this way should be compelled to witness the spectacle, and they were brought 
up under armed escort. 

"Sir E. Grey approved these proceedings, and you, Albert Blatchford, 
did not avail yourself of an opportunity to sign the petition for clemency on 
behalf of the man (with others) who was sentenced to twenty years' penal 
servitude for protecting his wife, who had been wounded by British shots. 

Quotes Churchill. 

"Have you ever read Mr. Winston Churchill's comment on Lord Kitch- 
ener's method's in the Sudan, in 'The River War ?' 

" 'The Mahdi's tomb had been for more than ten years the most sacred 
and holy thing that the people of the Soudan knew. They miserable lives 
had perhaps been brightened, perhaps in some way ennobled, by the con- 
templation of something which they believed exerted a protecting influence. 

" 'By Sir H. Kitchener's orders the tomb has been profaned and razed to 
the ground. The corpse of the Mahdi was dug up. The head was separated 
from the body; the limbs and trunk were flung into the Nile. Such was the 
chivalry of the conquerors.' 

"That incident remains to be paralleled by the 'Hiuis.' 

Boer War Denounced. 

"Have you ever studied Mr. Birrell's pamphlet issued during the Boer 
war on 'A Holocaust of Babes'? Do you remember that Field Marshal Sir 
N. Chamberlain and Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman denounced the methods of 
warfare in South Africa as 'the methods of barbarism'? 

"The Daily News, August i6, 1906, printed a letter from a British officer 
to his mother, recording the progress of events in the campaign against the 

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Zulu chief, Bambaata. That was a mercenary war to seize those poor 
wretches' lands : 

" 'About 9 a. m. Mudhlogozulu, the paramount chief, approached, carry- 
ing a white flag. Some two or three hundred accompanied him. He arrived 
a few yards in front of a sergeant, and explained that he wanted to give in. 

" The reply, of course, was a bullet that must have sent his brains some 
fifty yards off. His followers, who were now far too terrorized to use their 
weapons, stood back in a mass and shrieked for mercy. Mercy came quicker 
than expected — in the shape of a Maxim. What a sight ! The whole bundle 
dropped lifeless in less than a minute. Several women were among the slain, 
as well as a lot of young boys. 

" The general way of dispatching the prisoners is to take them out of the 
camp and tell them to run away into the bush. They only get about twenty 
yards or so when a bullet reaches them, and, of course, it is "good-by, John," 
for them. 

" *A faithful Kaffir was looking about the fallen when he found Bam- 
baata, and at once took steps to have his head brought into camp for iden- 
tification. Well, the first thing the doctor ordered was to have the matter 
kept secret, and also to have it stuffed at once. 

" 'We carried the head with us for about a week, when it was dissected, 
and the skull will probably be made into a nice tobacco jar for some one. 
Curiously enough, I was never in better health, and altogether the food is 
splendid. In fact, I think it is the finest picnic I have ever been at.' 

British Militarism. 

"Do you agree with that British officer, Robert Blatchford? Need one 
ask? Of course, you do. But it is surprising that many men more Eng- 
lish than yourself, with your singularly mixed ancestry, do resent the brutal- 
ization of their countrymen which is created by all the circumstances of war? 
That young officer may at one time have been a decent British gentleman, 
until he came under the pernicious influence of the Bernhardi school (British 
variety), to which you belong in spirit. 

"Did you ever read an account of that notable triumph of British arms 
when the 'Union Jack' was carried through Tibet to Lhassa — how the Tibetans 
came on, armed with bows and arrows, against Maxim guns, in defense of 
their country, and were mowed down by the thousand? 

''You mouth and rave about 'patriotism' and 'pro-Germans.' What 
do you know about patriotism? The patriotism that glosses and excuses 
the abominations herin set out is that which destroys a nation. Do you 
want Britain to become a mere name like Tyre, Babylon, Rome, Egypt and 
Greece? That is the nemesis of patriotism such as yours. You talk of re- 
tribution — a dangerous argument ! 

" 'Is Belgium suffering now as a punishment for her massacres of the 
Congo natives? Are the Boer rebels in arms as a retribution upon Britain? 
Is France being overrun as a retribution for the crimes of French im- 
perialism ? Are the disloyalty and disaffection in Egypt and Ireland a retribu- 
tion for the crimes committed by Britain in those countries?' 

"Most impudent of all, you shriek, 'would Germany have granted self- 

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government to South Africa?' 'Would Germany have conferred home rule 
on Ireland?' 

How Treacherous John Bull Was Forced to Grant the Boers Self- 

Gpvernment. 

"It is one of the terms of surrender by the Boers that self-government 
would be granted; but the British militarists would never have kept that un- 
dertaking but for the insistence of Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, the 'Chad- 
band' who denounced the South African campaign, in speech after speech, 
to your furious indignation. 

"The British militarists have steadily opposed the granting of home rule 
to Ireland, and were about to fonienl a rebellion against tlie home rule set 
when war broke out. 

"The curse of Germany has been the ravings of her Robert Blatchfords; 
but Britain can no longer pretend to be free from the detestable manifestations 
of militarism in the month when a man has been executed in Britain without 
a trial by jury for the first time since 1745; and when Lord Halsbury and 
Lord Loreburn had to combine in an appeal to the Liberal leader in the House 
of Lords that no British civilian shall be put to death by order of court-martial 
without the sanction of Parliament. 

"The British people have lost the liberties won by centuries of toil in 
a few months, and you, Robert Blatchford, are one of the guilty in that felon 
work against your countrymen. 

"The freedom that Britons had was not won by you and your like. 
Those who struggled in the past for British liberty were the 'Chadbands,' not 
the militarists. 

"You were fully aware that the railway workers, the transport workers 
and the miners were preparing for a tremendous struggle with the British 
shareholding class ; that Ireland was seething with unrest, and that serious 
events were impending in Britain. It was just the occasion the British ruling 
class would choose for plunging Western Europe into the horrors of war. 

"The War Has Failed." 

"The documents published by the French government are eloquent in 
their testimony of the social unrest in Europe as being a prinicpal element in 
the catastrophe which- has overtaken the working class. 

"Did you warn them ? Never ! But you misled them upon every point 
in international affairs, wherein their lack of information was at the mercy 
of your erroneous counsel. 

"You cry, 'more recruits !' and belabor the laggards who are rightly re- 
luctant to protect you and your like, as your victory would be more terrifying 
than a German success. 

"The war against 'German Militarism' has failed; for you and your like 
have established German militarism in these islands, though, fortunately the 
day of reckoning will come. 

"No one knows better than you that superiority of numbers makes the 
defeat of the British fleet an impossibility; but you have joined the Blue 
Funk school, so as to persuade Britons, that in dying for France, a country 

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whose tacfe, traditions and history, have no common feature with Britain, 
Britons are protecting their own homes. 

"You boast that you foresaw this war ! It would be truer to assert that 
you inflamed the passions of men until the war atm_osphere was created. Bathe 
in your bath of blood, but do not be so proud that you were one of those who 
had turned on the tap." 

The Appalling Failure of British Liberty. 

In England children are born out of doors and grow up with a roof over 
their heads and never know what it is to have a full belly. And that is your 
damned British civilization that you brag .so about and want to pass around 
to curse humanity still more. O! think of it, they have a titled stiff, tlie king 
over them. But you must not tell the truth about his lefthand marriage; 
because that would offend his apron-string. Then the persons interested in 
that unlucky, lefthand affair must be made to swear it never, never was. No, 
you must not tell the truth about Gorg and his lefthand marjiage. That 
would be libel, don't you know, and they would make it blarsted exasperating 
for you? Well, he is not the son of his father. His dad was a sport and 
never accused any one of libeling him, because they to^d the truth about him. 
If he had it would have kept him busy. 

In England when a man dies his estate all goes to the oldest son and 
the rest of the family get kicked out of doors into the street and poverty. 
This keeps property from being divided up and makes a few snobs and mil- 
lions of poor. The titled stiffs and rich men rule England, and the wealth 
is kept in the hands of a few. 

The rottenest, shakiest civilization is British, excepting Mexico. It 
is well described in "The Catechism of Balaam, Jr." : "Take England herself. 
Square mile after square mile of slums w^hich represent the intensest and 
most continuous misery, the utmost degradation, the most appalling failure 
of civilization, to be found anywhere. Rural population disappearing, health 
and strength ditto. Remaining rural population divided between landlords 
who live on the rest, farmers whose political minds have. been ossified into 
snobbish toryism for centuries, and laborers who dare not raise a voice in 
public affairs. A tory party of Bourbon folly, a "Liberal" party existing for 
the big manufacturers and ruled by the Rothschilds, Sassoons and Samuelses 
through secret party funds. Nowhere else, indeed, as they boast, does liberty 
flourish as in England and her possessions, thank God !" 

"Britain Warned of Her Peril/' Revolution. 

(A newspaper article in 1912, from N. Y. American.) 

Beset With Strikes and Taxes, Facing Danger of Hungry People, 

Burdened With Support of Fleet, Kingdom's "Sun Must Set 

Unless Something Happens." People No Longer 

Love Order But Cheer the "Marseillaise." 

John'L. Eddy wrote an article: "What is the Matter With England?" 
He mentioned the increasing cost of living and taxes and the discontent of 
labor and agitation and said: "Every Sunday thousands of workingmen with 

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huge banners march either through Trafalgar Square or Hyde Park playing 
the 'Marseillaise' and cheering socialism." 

Then he quoted from an article on "The Future of the British Race," 
by Heni7 Page Croft, M. P., in the London Outlook, Mr. Croft pointed at 
some length how the United States and Germany and Japan had forged ahead 
and England was dropping behind. Then he said: "There is only one cer- 
tainty about this position, and that is unless something happens, the sun of 
the British lies must set." — From N. Y. American, June 23, 191 2. 

Long before this war, Dr. Forbes Winslow, one of England's foremost 
alienists, said : "There is no doubt that England is going to the dogs, and that 
much quicker than most people would imagine. The difficult part of the prob- 
lem is to get the nation to realize that we are rapidly moving toward the 
downward path, and to take the proper steps to apply the brake before it is | 
too late." Then he gave figures about the increase of criminals. 



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CHAPTER XIX. 

HOW JOHN BULL GOT THIS WAR 

Facts Prove Russia Was To Back Up Serbia 

j To Start Hell; France Was to Back Up Russia, and England Was 
1 to Back Up France for This War, You Howling Liars; 

Belgium Plotted With England and France 
Against Germany. 

This was the visible, surface part of the plot. The Czar would 
never have pushed ahead for war with Germany and Austria-Hungary 
unless France was to back him, and France with her navy in the 
Mediterranean would never have gone to war with Germany unless 
England was to go to war with Germany also and protect the French 
coast from the German navy. All this is so plain that no proof is 
needed except for the American sapheads. The sapheads have got 
to have it proved to them. I will rub the facts and proof in while I 
am about it. The way this war has gone even an American saphead 
should be convinced that Russia and France did not want to try to 
eat the Kaiser without England's help, and the hell of it is they will 
have to give it up unless they can get more help. The Kaiser tried 
to have them get along without war, but no, they would not do it. 
Sapheads, I will prove it all to you. You lying demagogues down 
at Washington, you have deceived the fools here long enough. Dem- 
agogues and lying politicians and pork-grabbers masquerading as 
I statesmen. There is a loyal American, Wm. Randolph Hearst ; Hearst 
is the man and he is a man ; but you fellows are demogogues and 
i scoundrels. Rhetoric, gall, sophistry, buncombe ; and politics and 
I British interests and that rotten conglomeration you call international 
I law and statesmanship. See that conceited schoolmaster dig up that 
i antiquated British custom and go down to the other hend of Penn- 
sylvania Havenue and read his composition to the boys like rhetorical 
day in school. Well, Roosevelt did not have to send his physiog 
j along with his message for those boys to know that he was on the 
job. But Teddy wears a much larger hat and he has always gone 
: after something more strenuous than school-teaching. That strenu- 
ous Roosevelt is more like the Kaiser than the Kaiser himself. If 
j Roosevelt had been in the Kaiser's place he would have done what 
the Kaiser did two days before the Kaiser did it. There would be 
no "Me and Gott" about it; it would be just ME. 

I "Presently They Will Send Him (Grey) to the Gallows." 

I know it is a violation of our neutrality to expose that pirate 

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John Bull. But I simply cannot resist telling the truth while Prof. 
Wilson is on the job and before Sir Edward Grey is dead and rotten. 
Of course, in the language of dear old Hingland, it is blarstedly sedi- 
tious though. Well, I am going to hand you some more sedition 
right off quick. I can furnish plenty of good stuff for that rabid 
British paper of N. Y. City and also the one at Providence, R. I. 

Sir Edward is a liar and deceiver and cannot be relied upon to 
reveal all he plotted down the dark alley of diplomacy. But there is 
a plenty to prove that he deceived the British Cabinet and England 
so as to get this war and get the British into the war. Before there 
was any war, Grey threatened to resign unless England would sup- 
port France and Russia in war against Germany. This was on 
August 30, 1914. But the sapheads here have never heard of it. 
That famous scholar, Dr. F. C. Conybeare, of England (Oxford Uni- 
versity), said: "Presently they will send him (Grey) to the gallov/s," 
in "England on the Witness Stand." Dr. Conybeare exposes Sir 
Edward Grey in "England on the Witness Stand" and says at the 
beginning of this war he "felt so sure that England had all the right 
on her side and Germany all the wrong." Dr. Conybeare is an 
Englishman. 

If any of you liars and sapheads want diplomatic papers and 
British authorities for the statements I make in here about England, 
send 15c. for "England on the Witness Stand" to The Fatherland, 1123 
Broadway, N. Y. City. I prove by the facts that Serbia was to start 
the scrap and Russia was to back up Serbia, and France was to back 
up Russia, and England was to back up France for this hell, and Bel- 
gium was in with England and France. England was at the bottom 
of the infernal plot ; but England was to get into the war last. Yet 
if England was not to support France, France would not have sup- 
ported Russia, and then Russia would not have backed up Serbia. 

On August 2, 1914, Sir Edward Grey wrote the French Ambas- 
sador: "I am authorized to give assurance that if the German fleet 
comes into the Channel or through the North Sea to undertake hostile 
operations against the French coast or shipping, the British fleet will 
give all the protection in its power." Here you see England was» 
pledged to go to war against Germany whether Belgium was invaded 
or not. 

On November 22, 1912, Sir Edward Grey wrote the following 
note to the French Ambassador in London: "My dear Ambassador: 
From time to time, in recent years, the French and British Naval and 
Military experts have consulted together. ... I agree that, if either 
Government had grave reason to expect something that threatened 
the general peace, it should immediately discuss with the other what 
measures they would be prepared to take in common." This letter 
was made public by Grey in a speech August 3, 1914, so that it is an 
acknowledged genuine document that proves what Germany said 
about the English and French preparing military plans against Ger- 
many were real facts. 

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Britishers Suspicious that England Was to Back Up Some Other 
Nation in War and Questioned Grey. 

In November, 1911, Captain Faber, M.P., in Andover, on the 
Morocco crisis, stated that members of the Cabinet who stuck for the 
treaty with France were during the Morocco crisis in favor of sending 
six divisions of regular troops to help Britain's ally, France (Andover 
Times, November 16, 1911). In February, 1913, Lord Hugh Cecil 
in debate stated : "There is a very general belief that this country is 
under obligation, not a treaty, but an obligation arising out of an as- 
surance given by the Ministry in the course of diplomatic negotia- 
tions, to send a very large armed force out of this country to operate 
in Europe." 

Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke, Mr. Primrose and Parliament questioned 
Grey and also the Prime Minister about this secret diplomacy : 
"Whether the foreign policy of this country is at the present time un- 
hampered by any treaties, agreements, or obligations under which 
British military forces would, in certain eventualities, be called upon 
to be landed on the Continent?" Seven different occasions are cited 
in "England on the Witness Stand" and each time the answer was a 
denial. The last occasion was June 11, 1914, and Grey asserted: "If 
a war arose between European powers there were no unpublished 
agreements which would hamper or restrict the freedom of the Gov- 
ernment or of Parliament to decide whether or not Great Britain 
should participate in a war. This is as true now as it was a year ago," 
when it was last asserted. All this time Grey had a copy of his letter 
to the French Ambassador, M. Cambon, stating: "My dear Ambassa- 
dor : From time to time, in recent years, the French and British Naval 
and Military experts have consulted together. ... I agree that if 
either Government had grave reason to expect something that threat- 
ened the general peace, it should immediately discuss with the other 
what measures they would be prepared to take in common." If 
prominent men in England and Parliament were so suspicious that 
England was planning to participate in an European war, certainly 
the Germans were justified in such suspicion. 

Plotted, Yet Denied the Plots Were Plots. 

Years ago the Countess of Warwick had "a long and intimate 
talk about the Entente with the then Premier, M. Clemenceau, whom 
I knew well . . . and he said to m_e, *Lady Warwick, the Entente is 
of no use unless your country can put 400,000 soldiers into France in 
the hour of need.' " They plotted but denied they plotted, until 
after he got England into the war and then Grey confessed to it. 

"I am quite aware that the Premier and the Foreign Secretary re- 
peatedly denied in ParHament. prior to the war, that Britain was com- 
mitted to support France in case of a conflict with Germany. I am 
quite aware that Sir Edward Grey in giving our military authorities 
permission to enter into consultation with the military authorities of 
France declared that such consultation did not necessarily bind Britain 

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to common action in the case of war. But I ask you to use your com- 
mon sense : Can you conceive the military authorities of two nations 
preparing, over a period of eight years, a joint plan of campaign unless 
there was a fairly definite understanding that that plan would one day 
be put into execution? Military strategy is not a matter of toy flags 
and maps. The most elaborate details must be worked out, arrange- 
ments for transport, for accommodation, for food supply, for ammuni- 
tion, and hospital provision must be made, every inch of the country 
must be known, positions where guns should be placed noted, suitable 
points of defence and attack marked. Can it seriously be asserted 
that the military staffs of two Powers would cooperate in matters of 
this fcind unless they were assured that in case of war their coopera- 
tion in preparations would develop into cooperation in action?" — 
From "England on the Witness Stand." 

But Sir Edward Grey had already announced his intention of 
going to war with Germany by informing France that he would not 
allow the German navy to reach the French coast. This meant that 
whether Belgium was invaded or not, England was already pledged 
to support France regardless of what they were fighting about. 

Here is indisputable British proof that the French and English 
had military plans against Germany as the Germans claimed, which, 
through their secret service, they had obtained. But Sir E. Grey 
repeatedly denied that there was any such agreement that: "From 
time to time, in recent years, the French and British Naval and Mil- 
itary experts have consulted together. ... I agree that if either 
Government had grave reason to expect something that threatened 
the general peace, it should immediately discuss with the other what 
measures they would be prepared to take in common." On July 30th, 
1914, Grey sent a dispatch to the British Ambassador in Paris: "The 
French Ambassador in London reminded me to-day of the letter I 
had written to him two years ago, in which we agreed that if the 
peace of Europe was seriously threatened, we would discuss what we 
were prepared to do." What were they prepared to do? Carry out 
their naval and military plans in case France had war with Germany. 
Yet on August 3, 1914, Grey declared in the House of Commons that 
England had no secret arrangement with any power: 

"I assured the House — and the Prime Minister has assured the 
House more than once — that if any crisis such as this arose, we should 
come before the House of Commons and be able to say to the House, 
that it was free to decide what the British attitude should be, that we 
should have no secret engagement which we should spring upon the 
House, and tell the House that because we had entered into that en- 
gagement there was an obligation of honor upon the country." 

Grey's Secret Agreements With France. 

An extract from a letter by E. D. Morel, an Englishman, to the 
Executive of the Birkenhead Liberal Association, England, which 
appeared in the Birkenhead News and in the Birkenhead Advertiser 
of October 14, 1914. 

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"On August 3rd last, 1914, when the tramp of armed legions had 
begun to shake the plains of Europe, the Foreign Secretary revealed 
to the House of Commons, amid shouts of approval from the Tory 
benches, that he had contracted liabilities toward France as far back 
as 1906; that they had been renewed on divers occasions since, and 
that the final seal had been placed upon them on the previous day, 
August 2nd. These liabilities had taken the form of (a) authorizing 
a plan of military operations on the Continent of Europe between the 
British and French General Staffs, (b) authorizing an arrangement 
between the Admiralty and the French Naval authorities involving a 
strategic disposition of the French fleet favorably affecting our naval 
position in the Mediterranean, but leaving the French northern and 
western coastline undefended, (c) undertaking to attack the German 
fleet if the German fleet made a descent upon the French coasts or in- 
terfered with French shipping. 

'Tt came, therefore, to this. While negative assurances were 
given to the House of Commons, positive acts diametrically opposed 
to these assurances had been concerted by the War Ofifice and the 
Admiralty with the authority of the Foreign Office. All the obliga- 
tions of an open alliance had been incurred, but incurred by the most 
dangerous and subtle of methods; incurred in such a way as to- leave 
the Cabinet free to deny the existence of any formal parchment re- 
cording them, and free to represent its policy at home and abroad as 
one of contractual detachment from the rival Continental groups. 
When, in the early days of August, the situation into which the Gov- 
ernment as a whole had drifted, became for the first time clearly ap- 
parent to the Cabinet, two of its members found themselves unable 
to concur in what they regarded as a breach of faith to themselves and 
to the nation. Their standpoint, in a very differing degree of setting 
and circumstance, is myiDwn. To-morrow it will, I venture to pre- 
dict, be the standpoint of the Democracy of this country. For while 
the policy of contracting obligations of this kind toward Continental 
Powers may or may not be wise, a system which allows of so terrific 
a responsibility being assumed by a section of the Cabinet behind the 
back of Parliament is not a system which Democracy can tolerate 
with safety to itself. And a system which permits of responsible 
Ministers rising in Parliament to deny that which has been planned, 
prepared, and executed is not a system to which I, as a believer in the 
principal of government by the people for the people, can give my 
allegiance. The overwhelming significance of the avowals of August 
3rd are to-day obscured amidst the passions aroused by the war. But 
they constitute a challenge to the basic principles of popular govern- 
ment, and Democracy cannot remain indifferent to that challenge. 
It must take it up. If Liberalism is not behind it when it does so, 
Liberalism will disappear from our political life." 

Grey Had to Diabolically Deceive England to Get the British Into 

This War. 

On July 30, 1914, Grey sent a dispatch to the English Ambassa- 

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(lor in Paris, stating: *'Tlie French Ambassador in London reminded 
me to-day of the letter I had written him two years ago, in which we 
agreed that if the peace of Europe was seriously threatened, we would 
discuss what Ave were prepared to do." That day Grey threatened 
to resign unless England would back up France and Russia in war 
with Germany. Remember this was two days before Russia and 
Germany were in a state of war. 

After the French and English military experts had spent years 
in preparing military plans for war with Germany, Grey had to dia- 
bolically deceive the British to get them to go into it. Grey took the 
only way there was as I will show you. The English people did not 
want war with Germany and it has been a difficult task to stir them 
up enough to keep the war going, let alone winning it. 

The British Cabinet was opposed to going into this war if Ger- 
many would agree to respect Belgian neutrality. So the Cabinet had 
Sir Edward Grey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to confer with the 
German Ambassador about the matter. Parliament had suspicions 
that Grey was to back up France in war with Germany. So the Ger- 
mans were certainly justified in their suspicion that England was 
aligned with France. When Grey inquired of Lichnowsky if Ger- 
many would respect Belgium's neutrality, the matter was sifted down 
until it hinged on whether England would remain neutral. That is 
if England would agree to remain neutral, then Germany would not 
invade Belgium and even offered to guarantee the integrity of Prance 
and her colonies. When this failed to make Grey agree to England's 
remaining neutral, Germany asked him to state upon what conditions 
England would remain neutral. How could Grey agree to be neutral 
when he had agreed in case there was war between France and Ger- 
many and the German navy came around for the French coast, Eng- 
land was to sail in? Grey refused every offer. 

The British Cabinet did not want war with Germany if Belgian 
neutrality was to be safe and the "Cabinet plainly expected Grey to 
report to them at once any disposition to yield, if Germany showed 
signs of it. Grey knew that if he reported Lichnowsky's proposals, 
the Cabinet would jump at them, and then he would be unable to 
execute his secret bond to France and Russia. What did he do? He 
told none of his colleagues of them on August 1, and when the Cab- 
inet met next morning, August 2, he concealed them from the entire 
Cabinet, as he did from the House of Commons next day, August 3. 
By doing so, he precipitated us into this war; I say he tricked us into 
war ; us, a generous people (who — except for a few rabid chauvinists 
on the Tory side — were averse to war with Germany with whom we 
were for the first time since Agadir on cordial terms) into war with 
you. Take my word for it. Grey will, in good time, be running for 
his life over this sinister business." — Dr. F. C. Conybeare, of Oxford 
University, England, in "England on the Witness Stand." 

Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald, a labor member of Parliament, does^ 
not hesitate to let them know over there that the British Government 
wanted this war. He said : "The country had been so helplessly com- 

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mitted to fight for France and Russia that Sir Edward Grey had to re- 
fuse point blank every overture made by Germany to keep us out of 
the conflict. That is w^hy, when reporting the negotiations to the 
House of Commons, he found it impossible to tell the whole truth and 
to put impartially what he chose to tell us. He scoffed at the German 
guarantee to Belgium on the ground that it only secured the 'integ- 
rity' of the country, but not its independence; when the actual docu- 
ments appeared it was found that its independence was secured 
as well." 

Here is a book about John Bull that I did not read until after I 
had written this war discussion. But it fully exposes how the British 
Government and that rotten stiff, King Edward, pulled the wires to 
get the nations lined up to crush Germany by a dozen of them jump- 
ing in at the same time. The book is true and the British want to 
shoot Lincoln for writing it and exposing their diabolical plot. After 
he came here and decided to write the book; then the British fixed 
up a forgery charge against Lincoln to get him into their clutches so 
they can shoot him. And this Tory gang that is running things now 
are a disgrace to the country that George Washington fought for. 
This same British government would have hung or shot George 
Washington if they could have got him. And now we are helping 
them get this Lincoln. His case comes up in the Supreme Court 
April 6. You know my opinion of that court. Well Lincoln is a smart 
man and he has told the truth about the way England plotted to get 
this war. Will have to pay for it with his life. But he would not if 
this country were run by men like George Washington. 

Revelations of an International Spy 

By I. T. T. Lincoln 

Former Member of the British Parliament and Secret Agent 
of the German Government 

These astonishing revelations by Ignatius Tribich-Lincoln, a na- 
tive of Hungary, a naturalized subject of England and former Liberal 
member of Parliament, disclose the false pretensions of world politics, 
the deceptions of cabinets and the bewildering intrigues of the last 
fifteen years. 

Mr. Lincoln, who has been detained in a New York prison since 
August at the instance of the British authorities, has had an amazing 
career. Educated for the Jewish priesthood in Hungary, he became 
later a Presbyterian missionary in Canada, curate of Appledore in 
Kent, secretary to Mr. Rowntree, the cocoa magnate, and in 1910 
Member of the House of Commons. 

While ostensibly conducting economic investigations on the Con- 
tinent for Mr. Rowntree, he became the secret agent of a group of 
eminent Englishmen who were opposed to the dangerous foreign 
policy of Edward VII. 

The author's successful contact with prominent officials and diplo- 
mats of the great chancelleries of Europe revealed the momentous 

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significance of the secret meeting at Windsor Castle in January, 1906, 
in which the isolation of Germany was determined upon. He discov- 
ered facts often denied in the House of Commons — that the forces of 
the empire were committed to France and Belgium by official military 
conversations in 1909 and 1911; and that Sir Edward Grey's subtle 
diplomacy made war inevitable. 

Because of the ruin of Mr. Lincoln's business by the war and the 
personal insult and contumely to which he and others of Austrian 
or German birth were subjected, he planned in anger and revenge to 
obtain information and codes from the German intelligence headquar- 
ters at Rotterdam and with this to gain the confidence of the British 
War Office. 

By a clever ruse he obtained a hearing with Captain P. W. Kenny, 
the head of the secret intelligence department of the War Office, but 
an encounter with the detectives of the Admiralty made it necessary 
for him to escape to the United States. 

Illustrated with corroborative letters and documents. $1.50 net, 
postage, 15c. 

You can order it of the publishers of this book. 

Grey Knew Belgium Was to Be Invaded. 

Germany had known for years that England and France and 
Russia were plotting war with Germany and that Belgium, declared 
neutral, was in with England and France. Because Belgium was 
neutral to the countries around her. Yet she was fortifying against 
Germany. If any of you sapheads want to see how England began 
back in 1906 to diplomatically prepare to make war on Germany, just 
read the British diplomatic papers ; with Belgian diplomats since 
1906 in "European Politics," 25c., of The Fatherland, 1123 Broadway, 
N. Y. City Germany had found out through her spy system years 
ago that England was plotting war with Germany and that Belgium 
was in with England and France. 

J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., said : "We knew Germany's mili- 
tary plans. We obtained them through the usual channels of spies 
and secret service. We knew that the road through Belgium was an 
essential part of them. It had been known for years that, in the 
event of war between Russia and France on the one side and Ger- 
many on the other, the only possible military tactics for Germany to 
pursue were to attack France hot foot through Belgium, and then 
return to meet the Russians. The plans were in our War Office. 
They were discussed quite openly during the Agadir (1911) trouble, 
and were the subject of some magazine articles, particularly one by 
Mr. Belloc." 

How Grey Managed it to Make Sure Hell Would Be Raised in 

Belgium. 

The British Cabinet wanted Belgian neutrality respected and 
they wanted to keep out of war with Germany. Germany agreed to 

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not invade Belgium if England would keep out of the war, which 
were just the two things the Cabinet wanted. And Grey knew that 
the Cabinet would jump at the offer and then the neutrality of Bel- 
gium would be guaranteed. Because the Cabinet and the English 
people did not want war with Germany. So unless Belgium was to 
be invaded, Grey could not get England to go to war with Germany. 
Yet Grey had already threatened to resign unless England would 
support France in war against Germany over Servia. So Grey kept 
Germany's offer to guarantee the neutrality and independence of Bel- 
gium if England would remain neutral — Grey kept this offer from the 
Cabinet and from the House of Commons so that the neutrality of 
Belgium could not be guaranteed and that they would believe that 
nothing could be done with Germany to save Belgium. Then, in 
order to insure that Belgium would be invaded, Grey made it plain to 
Germany that England would not agree to remain neutral under 
any circumstances, even though Germany respected Belgian neutral- 
ity. Grey informed the German Ambassador on July 29th that: 
"Russia cannot be expected to allow Austria to humiliate Servia." 
(White Paper, 88 and 89.) This showed that Grey was with Russia 
and he stated on the 26th that ''if war were to break out in Europe no 
nation could take a detached attitude." Sapheads, this meant that if 
war broke out in Europe, England would get into it. That is they 
were all going at Germany. 

Germany offered to indemnify Belgium for peaceable passage 
through to France. But England would not allow that. On August 
4th Grey telegraphed the British Minister at Brussels: *'You should 
inform Belgian Government that if pressure is applied to them by 
Germany to induce them to depart from neutrality, His Majesty's 
Government expect that they will resist by any means in their power." 
(Ibid., Document 155, p. 108.) "It was a terribly selfish act to press 
that advice upon Belgium, when no substantial assistance, in the mili- 
tary sense, could be rendered to save Belgian territories from devas- 
tation." 

Grey would not allow the Belgians to let the Germans pay toll 
and pass peaceably through ; but His Majesty, the British Stiff, ex- 
pects you Belgians to invite destruction by resisting the Germans. 
Grey wanted the Belgians to resist the Germans so there would be 
hell in Belgium and thus turn the world against Germany. See how 
John Bull would not allow Antwerp to surrender without resistance 
so as to cause all the havoc possible there. The King of Belgium had 
prepared to resist the Germans, but he felt that if there was a way 
out of that he would rather be excused. So August 4th he tele- 
graphed Grey: "I make a supreme appeal to the diplomatic inter- 
vention of your Majesty's Government to safeguard the integrity of 
Belgium" (Ibid. p. 153). He asked Grey to diplomatic intervene and 
save Belgium. By remaining neutral Grey could have saved Bel- 
gium. He did just the opposite and forced the Belgians to invite 
destruction by resisting the Germans. They had to resist, too, or 
the British navy would have turned loose on Belgium. If the neu- 

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Irality of Belgium were all that England and Grey wanted he would 
have agreed to remain neutral and thus Belgium would not have 
been invaded. If England had agreed to have kept out of it, then 
France would not have wanted the German navy coming around at 
her coast and she would have suddenly found a good excuse to keep 
the peace. France did not want to go into it without the support 
of England, as is proved by the telegram that Grey sent, July 30, 1914, 
to the English Ambassador (see page 45) in Paris: '*The French 
Ambassador in London reminded me to-day of the letter I had writ- 
ten him two years ago, in which we agreed that if the peace of 
Europe was seriously threatened we would discuss what we were 
prepared to do." That day Grey threatened to resign unless Eng- 
land would support France in war on Germany over Servia. If Eng- 
land had kept out, France could not have been coaxed to have gone 
to war. Then that barbarous brute, the Russian bear that walks like 
a man, would not have wanted to commit suicide by trying to eat 
all the Germans that would have called on him. There would have 
been no war if England had not backed up France. But piling up the 
debts and taxes as they are in England, it will be only a short time 
after this war ends until England will have trouble enough, and then 
will be done unto England's navy and commerce what she did to 
ours during our internal troubles. Retribution good and plenty is not 
far away for diabolical John Bull, and no pirate deserves it more than 
he. Sir Edward Grey deserves a rope around his neck. 

A Member of Parliament, J. Ramsay MacDonald, said : "It is in- 
teresting to gather from Sir Edward Grey's speech of August 3d 
and the White Paper how completely the Entente entangled him. 
There were first of all the "conversations" between French and 
British naval and army experts from 1906 onward. These produced 
plans of naval and military operations which France and we were to 
take jointly together. It was in accordance with these schemes that 
the northern coasts of France were left unprotected by the French 
navy. When Sir Edward Grey evoked our sympathy on the ground 
that the French northern coasts were unprotected, he did not tell us 
that he had agreed that they should be unprotected and that the 
French fleet should be concentrated in the Mediterranean." 

These "conversations" were carried on for about six years with- 
out the knowledge or consent of the Cabinet. The military plans 
were sent to St. Petersburg, and a Grand Duke (so well-informed 
authorities say) connected with the German party in Russia sent 
them to Berlin. Germany has known for years that there were, mili- 
tary arrangements between France and ourselves, and that Russia 
would fit her operations into these plans. 

We had so mixed ourselves up in the Franco-Russian alliance 
that Sir Edward Grey had to tell us on August 3d, that though our 
hands were free our honor was pledged ! 

The country had been so helplessly committed to fight for France 
and Russia that Sir Edward Grey had to refuse point blank every 
overture made by Germany to keep us out of the conflict. That is 

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why, when reporting the negotiations to the House oi Commons, he 
found it impossible to tell the wdiole truth and to put impartially what 
he chose to tell us. He scoffed at the German guarantee to Belgium 
on the ground that it only secured the "integrity" of the country but 
not its independence; when the actual docum_ents appeared it was 
found that its independence was secured as well. And that is not 
the worst. The White Paper contains several offers which were 
made to us by Germany aimed at securing our neutrality. None 
were quite satisfactory in their form and Sir Edward Grey left 
the impression that these unsatisfactory proposals were all that 
Germany made. Later on the Prime Minister did the same. Both 
withheld the full truth from us. The German ambassador saw Sir 
Edward Grey, according to the White Paper, on August 1st — and this 
is our foreign minister's note of the conversation : 

"The Ambassador pressed me as to whether I could not formulate 
conditions upon which we could remain neutral. He even suggested 
that the integrity of France and her colonies might be guaranteed." 

"Sir Edward Grey declined to consider neutrality on any condi- 
tions and refrained from reporting this conversation to the House. 
Why? It was the most important proposal that Germany made. 
Had this been told us by Sir Edward Grey his speech could not have 
worked up a war sentiment. The hard, immovable fact is that Sir 
Edward Grey had so pledged the country's honor without the coun- 
try's knowledge to fight for France or Russia, that he was not in a 
position even to discuss neutrality. That was the state of affairs on 
July 20th, and did not arise from anything Germany did or did not 
do after that date." — "England on The Witness Stand." 

The hard, immovable fact is that before there was war, August 
30, 1914, Grey threatened to resign unless he got war. He had plot- 
ted for it for years and now if England would not back France and 
Russia to go ahead he was going to quit. 

Germany's Alleged Attempt to Bribe England. 

You liars who say Germany tried to bribe England to remain 
neutral, read these facts about how England had before been on the 
verge of going to w^ar against Germany for France, and you will see 
that Germany had good reason for wanting to know what England 
intended to do this time. American sapheads, post up how England 
back up France in her violation of the treaty with Germany, the 
Act of Algeciras, guaranteeing "Economic liberty without any in- 
equality," as well as the sovereignity, independence and integrity of 
Morocco and other Egyptian dominions. But in 1911, France and 
Spain went ahead and helped themselves as though the treaty did 
not exist. Germany protested and some of the British Cabinet were 
in favor of a naval demonstration against Germany. The facts of 
this Morocco affair are fully discussed by the Britisher and editor 
of the Manchester Labor Leader in "England on the Witness Stand.'' 
The excuse the French had for going in was that the Europeans in 
Fez were in danger from insurgents which the French have since 

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admitted was a farce, the pretext for their jumping hi and then after 
they got in they stayed there because they were there. Spain saw 
that the picking was good, so she sent in 20,000 troops to gobble up 
a sHce. Germany had many interests there and with her enterprises 
had done considerable for Morocco, as M. Deschanel, the President j 
of the French Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, admit- 
ted. But Germany was not to be regarded. Finally, ''on July 3, 1911, 
the German cruiser Panther anchored off Agadir. No shot was fired, 
no troops were landed. But the whole world knew by this silent pro- 
test that Germany did not intend, without being consulted, to see the 
'scrap of paper' signed at Algeciras torn to shreds." This aroused 
more indignation in London than in Paris, and exaggerated reports 
were published in the London Times about Germany, but the French 
Yellow Book, November, 1912, shows such demands did not exist, 
except in the imagination of the Times. Without waiting to see what 
the Germans demanded of the French, Grey informed the German 
Ambassador that England would not allow the cession of the French 
Congo to Germany, and through a speech by Mr. Lloyd George, 
virtually delivered an ultimatum to Germany that evening. For a 
few days England was on the verge of war with Germany. Ger- 
many had good reason for trying to get it into black and white, 
whether or not England would remain neutral in this war, 

After the Morocco affair Germany knew that England was lined 
up against her. A. Fenner Brockway, Editor of the Manchester 
Labor Leader, says : "As the French Yellow Book bears witness, it 
was the attitude of Britain and France at the time of the Agadir in- 
cident of 1911 which caused Germany to proceed so vigorously with 
her preparations for war. There could no longer be any doubt that 
Britain was cooperating with France against Germany. From this 
date the extreme military rivalry between France and Germany dates. 
Out of this incident grew the arrangement between France and 
Britain whereby the French Fleet was withdrawn from the English 
Channel and concentrated in the Mediterranean. Indeed, it might 
with truth be said that so far as Germany and Britain are concerned, 
the Agadir incident was the preliminary skirmish of the present war." 

So there was ground for this statement, dated September 16, 
1914, and made by "an important officer of the British Crown" to the 
greatest American authority on political science. You will find it in 
a recent book on. the war by Prof. J. W. Burgess, Dean of Columbia 
University: "My own private opinion is that Grey utterly out- 
manoeuvred the Germans. He began the game by getting- Italy to 
annex Tripoli. Practically, that was the end of the Triple Alliance, 
as now we have a million of hostages in North Africa, and Italy dares 
not stir against us. Then came the Balkan League, financed by 
England and France, and, but for the idiotic vanity of King Ferdi- 
nand, we should have had the war then. For the last three years 
England, France and Russia have been steadily preparing for the 
struggle, and Germany stupidly played the enemies' game." 

George Bernard Shaw (now don't any of you unsophisticated 

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pro=British imagine Mr. Shaw is German), in commenting upon 
Churchiirs boast in the House of Commons that the British navy 
had been preparing for war with Germany for five years, said: "I 
knew Churchill would let the cat out of the bag sooner or later. He 
cannot keep from boasting.'* 

Dig Up for the War Sufferers. 

''Idiotic Yankees," dig up for the sufferers of this war which John 
Bull got. The London Times said : "Papen more idiotic than the 
idiotic Yankees." Not long before this war the British hotelkeepers 
said they would rather have the Germans to patronize them than 
Americans. English, like the rest of Europe, have no use for Amer- 
icans except their money. Irwin Cobb is pro-British in this war; yet 
you can read his book, "Europe Revised," and see just what the 
British think of Americans, and then despise them after they do get 
tips out of them. See how they despise us by the kind of characters 
they put on the stage to represent Americans. Yet "Europe Revised" 
is a very entertaining book; published by George H. Doran Co., New 
York. The American people are easily jollied up and soft-soaped by 
the French and British. England has for her ally our enemy, Japan. 
That is how much of a friend that British government is to us. 

Thomas Jefferson said: 

"We concur in considering the Government of England as totally 
without morality, insolent beyond bearing, inflated with vanity and 
ambition, aiming at the exclusive dominion of the seas, lost in corrup- 
tion and deep-rooted hatred toward us, hostile to liberty wherever it 
endeavors to show its head, and the eternal disturber of the peace of 
the world." — From his letter to Thomas Liper, June 12, 1815. That 
Satanic British government has not changed since the days of Jeffer- 
son. Pass this hot book around and put the blame for this war where 
the facts prove it belongs. 



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CHAPTER XX. 

JOHN BULL'S RECORD PROVES THAT 
HE IS A RAPACIOUS PIRATE 

John Bull Robs American Business Men 

That pirate has confiscated millions and millions of dollars' 
worth of American goods that were ordered sent to Europe long be- 
fore this war. Business orders sent by cable have also been con- 
fiscated and turned over to British business men to fill and thus rob 
American men of all the business that pirate can. It is plain to any 
one but a British bone-head down at Washington that John Bull's 
fight in the cause of humanity is to rob the American business men 
all he can, while trying to crush Germany for being more efficient in 
commerce and industry. 

Prof. Wilson, Why Do You Stand for This? 

That highway robber and pirate destroys our trade under pre- 
tence of doing up Germany, and it is time for you to get ofif your 
bombastic stunt that you will not omit any word or act until this 
pirate stops robbing our commerce and mail. France and Egypt are 
allowed to supply cotton to Switzerland, but our cotton is confiscated 
or held by that pirate. It is the same with other American goods 
which are shut out from European neutrals and then supplied by 
British merchants ; and our mails are illegally opened so as to get 
our orders for goods and trade secrets and then turn them over to 
benefit Britishers. I wish William Randolph Hearst were in your 
place. Then we would have a man that would look out for Ameri- 
can interests instead of the land of your grandparents. Here is what 
England does, an editorial from N. Y. American: **Here is an in- 
teresting little cablegram that may have escaped your attention : 

Berne, via Paris, Sunday. — The French Government, after long 
negotiations, has released 16,000 bales of American cotton which has 
been stored at Havre and Boulogne and which could not be forwarded 
on account of the war. 

There is great need in Switzerland for cotton, some of the mills 
already having suspended work. Great Britain has permitted Swit- 
zerland to import 300,000 quintals of Egyptian cotton. A quintal is 
220.46 pounds. 

This kind of thing is happening all the time to our commerce and 
trade. Upon one excuse or another American goods are detained 
while, as in this case, the market is supplied with British goods. We 

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can understand why England finds an excuse in necessity for stop- 
ping American goods in transit to Germany, though many of her acts 
in this direction are arbitrary and illegal. 

But we cannot understand how the Administration permits 
American trade to be barred from neutral countries like Switzerland, 
while British traders are freely shipping the same identical goods 
to the same identical markets from which Americans are barred. No 
foreign Government would have treated our neutral traders that way 
twice when Grover Cleveland or Ulysses S. Grant or Abraham Lin- 
coln was President of the United States." 

Here is British Proof that England Opens Our Mail so as 
to Rob Our Firms of Orders and Their Trade Secrets 

"By the time this appears in print, Senator Hitchcock will prob- 
ably have furnished the Senate incontrovertible proofs that behind 
the holding up and opening up of neutral mail is a gigantic scheme 
to steal our trade with the countries of the world. 

A Boston man has supplied evidence that two registered letters 
containing money to a considerable amount were opened and the 
contents rifled. Fast upon the heels of this came worse. A large 
American firm which deals with neutral countries transmits its mail 
in leather pouches. Under international law, a belligerent has the 
power, which cannot w^ell be questioned, either of forwarding such 
pouches consigned to the mails, or returning them to the sender, 
the presumption being that he is a neutral and a citizen of a friendly 
power. 

The pouch was returned to the sender all right. But not intact. 
It had been cut open and the contents carefully inspected. Even 
this might have been condoned by our indulgent administration, for 
the Hitchcock resolution in the Postoffice Department calling for all 
evidence of the abuse of our mail by the British authorities is still 
resting in committee in response to frenzied appeals from Post- 
master General Burleson, not to report it to Senate, in view of the 
univeral protest that the publicity concerning the outrage would be 
sure to excite. 

But by some strange freak of fate, the returned pouch also con- 
tained a copy of the private instructions to the British censor which 
must have got into the pouch by sheer accident; and among other 
interesting things it contains a clause directing the censor to make 
notes of all the trade secrets contained in the private correspondence 
between American firms and their foreign customers, for use of 
British tradesmen. These notes were to cover all details regarding 
prices charged for goods, the terms, the conditions, and all matters 
relating to transactions that are jealously guarded by those con- 
cerned. The firm promptly sent the interesting and highly valuable 
manifest of Great Britain's perfidy to Senator Hitchcock, and the Ne- 
braska statesman will probably have submitted it to his colleagues in 
open session ere this finds its way into print." — Fatherland, February 
2, 1916. ^ ^ .J. 

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Hannis Taylor. 

One of the world's greatest authorities on International law, 
formerly ambassador to Spain, says : "Never since the wars of the 
French Revolution have the rights of neutral commerce on the high 
seas been so ruthlessly violated as they have been by the British 
orders in council, under which the non-contraband cotton of the 
South — so declared by the Declaration of London — and the food 
products of the West have been deprived in transit of practically 
every right guaranteed by the law of nations. 

''Apart from the Declaration of London, made at the instance of 
Great Britain, whose Article 28 expresly provides that 'raw cotton' 
shall never be made contraband, we have the assurance given last 
Fall by Sir Edward Grey to our State Department that cotton would 
not be molested. 

"That assurance removed any possible technical quibble based 
upon the idea that the Declaration of London is not binding on Great 
Britain so far as cotton is concerned. Our State Department should 
not admit for a moment that there is any doubt in that point, and 
should act accordingly." — N. Y. American. 

Way We Treated Neutrals During Our War. 

The apologists for the British blockade of neutral ports against 
neutral shipping rest their case upon the assertion that the United 
States, during the Civil War, seized neutral ships bound for neutral 
ports with cargoes which were meant for reshipment to the Con- 
federacy. 

This would be a strong argument but for one thing. The United 
States did not do anything of the kind. The two test cases submitted 
to the Supreme Court of the United States for a final determination 
of the doctrine of continuous voyage and ultimate destination were 
the cases of the ship Springbok and the ship Peterhof. The ship 
Springbok was ostensibly headed for one of the neutral West Indies 
ports, but was really headed toward the blockade line, with the in- 
tention of running the cargo through. This ship the Supreme Court 
held to be a lawful blockade prize. 

The ship Peterhof was headed for Mexico, and although it was 
clearly apparent that her cargo was to go overland from Mexico to 
the blockaded Confederacy, the Supreme Court of the United States 
ordered the Peterhof to be released, on the ground that the presumed 
disposition of her cargo after it was discharged in Mexico did not 
abrogate the ship's right to voyage from a neutral port to a neutral 
port. 

And this is exactly the rightful American contention in the case 
of American ships voyaging to neutral countries contiguous to Ger- 
many. The British Government may have a right to demand guar- 
antees of Sweden and Norway and Holland as to shipments of Ameri- 
can goods into Germany — though that is a debatable question. 

But the British Government has no right to seize American ships 

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bound for neutral countries because it suspects that the Cargoes sold 
to those countries may afterward find their way into Germany. Our 
own Supreme Court upheld this same contention of Great Britain 
against American seizures of British merchantman during our great 
war, and our Government ought now to uphold the same contention 
of American shippers against British seizures of American merchant- 
men. We ask nothing but the same justice and the same respect for 
international law which we granted Great Britain in the time of our 
own sore distress and dreadful civil strife. — N. Y. American, Febru- 
ary 7, 1916. 

It is a British Commercial War. 

"As proof the American, offers this frank confession and exposi- 
tion of British motives, uttered in the House of Commons on Monday 
by Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade — a high 
Cabinet position in England : 

" 'When peace is concluded it must be made clear that we will 
not permit the economic war which Germany would wage against 
ourselves and our allies. We should not be prepared to w^ait for 
the end of the war before dealing with the matter. It had always 
been the policy of the Board of Trade to capture German trade dur- 
ing the war. In the case of South America we have developed trade 
since the beginning of the war which it is hoped will be continued 
after the cessation of hostilities. It is agreed that we must ask the 
co-operation of our dominions in view of the necessity of keeping 
control of the world's coal and securing control of its oil.' 

"It is, indeed, refreshing to begin to hear the plain truth spoken 
about the purposes and objects of the war after so many months of 
twaddle and emotional silly stuff that ought not to have deceived the 
intelligence of a fairly bright high-school boy." — N. Y. American, 
January 12, 1916. 

How the Pirate "Britannia Rules the Waves." 

Walter Raleigh was a pirate and robbed Spanish commerce so 
successful that he was given a title. Then they dubbed him Sir Wal- 
ter Raleigh. He said : "He who commands the sea controls trade and 
commerce ; he who controls trade and commerce commands the 
wealth and riches of the world ; and he who controls wealth controls 
the world." Cromwell said : "England will not suffer any other flag 
than the British to float upon the ocean except by her permission." 

A writer on maritime law, Azundi, said : "England has always 
felicitated herself on her superiority at sea, but how shamefully has it 
been acquired ; by the violation of sacred principles of the laws of 
nations ; by ruining the commerce of every other nation, and by 
keeping so many French seamen to perish in her prisons." Every 
nation has had to sufifer outrage at the hand of England in order that 
she may maintain that supremacy. At one time England took thous- 
ands and thousands of American seamen from our ships at sea and 
impressed those victims into the service of British ships of war. 

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Then ao^ain she did us up by furnishing the destroyers during the 
rebel war which swept our commerce from the seas. It has always 
been by doing up some one that she maintained her supremacy. It 
has not been by allowing the best man to win. This is the main 
cause of this British-German war. The historical facts of England's 
piratical policy of ruling the sea and commerce has bfeen ably pre- 
sented by Mr. George W. O'Reilly on the editorial pages of the New 
York American and the N. Y. Journal on August 25, 1915. Loyal 
American patriots get the straight historical goods about that pirate 
John Bull in that editorial, which is inserted below. 

British Navalism More Offensive and Infernal 

Than German Militarism and Here Are the Historical Facts: 

"England Has Stopped Our Shipment of Cotton, 

Should We Stop Our Shipment of Arms?" 

To the Editor of the New York American: 

England has made cotton contraband of war, and has illegally 
interfered with its free shipment by the United States. Cotton is 
one of the chief products of this country. Cotton is one of our main 
articles of commerce. 

Our right under international law to export cotton unhampered 
by England's interference is undeniable, unquestionable, even un- 
denied and unquestioned. England does not prohibit our exportation 
of cotton to neutral nations as a measure of right, but as a measure of 
might. 

She sweeps the important articles of the commerce of this coun- 
try from the seas without ruth and without right, because she cares 
to do so and because she can do so. She inflicts this severe blow 
with the might of her marine power upon a great stable product of 
this country because she is fearful of Germany, and, second, because 
she is jealous of the United States. 

England guards her commerce as she guards her life, because 
she has intelligence enough to realize that her commerce is her life. 
She has never allowed any nation to build up a commerce to compete 
with hers. She would not permit Germany to build up a rival com- 
merce. She plotted war with Germany and leagued the nations 
against Germany to undermine, hamper and eventually destroy her 
chief commercial rival. 

England will not allow the United States in this era of our op- 
portunity to build up a rival commerce. Tw^ice before, in the short 
history of the country, England has set out to destroy our commerce 
and both times she succeeded in destroying it. In the early years 
of the nineteenth century our commerce was supreme upon the seas. 
Our new-born American flag flaunted in the furthest harbors. Our 
goods were distributed wherever the waves rolled and the winds 
blew, and we carried commerce not only the products of our own 
country but a large share of the products of other countries as well. 

Then England began, as she is beginning now, to interfere with 

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our commerce in every possible way, illegally, illegitimately, vigor- 
ously, vindictively. She closed the ports of herself and her allies 
upon us. She blacklisted our goods with orders in council. She 
robbed us of our neutral rights then as she is doing now. She held 
up our ships in high sea piracy and robbed them of their seamen. 
She finally forced us into war to defend our lately won liberties; then, 
with the same arrogance and insolence of naval power that she is 
using and abusing to-day, she pillaged what remained of our com- 
merce afloat, and as a final act of contempt and defiance burned and 
gutted the Capitol of our nation and the White House of our Presi- 
dent. Again, in the times preceding ovn* Civil War, our commerce 
had regained its supremacy. 

Our clipper ships were the admiration of the world, our Yankee 
skippers sailed undaunted the most distant seas. But during our 
Civil War England took advantage of our danger and difficulties. 
Illegally and illegitimately again, in violence and in violation of 
trade and treaty rights, she allowed the building of hostile vessels 
in her yards and the fitting out of pirate privateers in her ports to 
prey upon our commerce and destroy it. 

Yet we are not the unusual objects of England's antagonism. 
We are not the specially selected subjects of England's envy and 
eumity. President Wilson, professor of English history and also 
English professor of history, could tell you — if only he loved his 
mother country less and his adopted country more — that it has been 
the persistent policy of England throughout the centuries to destroy 
every nation which sought to rival her commerce, to challenge her 
empire of the oceans. 

In the sixteenth century Spain, with a courage and an enterprise 
which other nations did not possess, set out to find new roads across 
uncharted seas, new lands and riches for itself and for the world. 
America was discovered, the Father of Waters was found, the shore 
of the Pacific was first beheld, the earth was circumnavigated, un- 
known land explored, undreamed of wealth revealed — all by expedi- 
tions under the flag of Spain. 

England trailed enviously and hungrily behind. What Spain 
found, England stole. The wealth Spain wrested from the earth 
England robbed from her at sea. The Raleighs, the Drakes, and all 
the lusty pirates whom we have been taught by English text-books to 
reverence as heroes were commissioned to prey upon Spanish com- 
merce and rob the Spanish galleons of their gold. 

Queen Elizabeth, as able as she was unscrupulous, welcomed 
those sea rovers upon their successful return, shared in the plunder 
of their piracy and rewarded them with knighthood in accordance 
with the royal custom of her race. At last Spain, pillaged of the 
profits of her energy and enterprise, went to war with England and 
was beaten, her armada and her commerce were destroyed. 

England once more by force and fear held hegemony of the seas. 
In the seventeenth century Holland, by patience and persistence, by 
courage and constancy, created a splendid commerce with the Far 

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Kast. The venturesome ships of this brave little country sailed from 
the north to the south seas around the Cape of Good Hope and up 
into the Indian Ocean. They carried the goods of Europe and 
brought back the wealth of the Orient. Their trade was vast and | 
valuable — and England coveted it. England found excuse for war, 
as usual, and the wealth which little Holland had so hardly won 
was taken from her with that smug mixture of prayer and piracy 
that is so characteristically English. 

What was best in Holland's commerce and colonies England 
acquired in the interest of those "free institutions" and of that 
"higher civilization" which England takes so much pride — and profit 
— in representing. 

In the eighteenth century it was France which forged to the 
front as a commercial and colonizing country, and which was fought 
and defeated, her commerce destroyed and her colonies appropriated 
by England. 

In the nineteenth century it was the United States, as we have 
seen, whose commerce and prosperity were the objects of England's 
greed and jealousy. 

In the twentieth century it was Germany. Therefore, England 
will not make peace "until Germany's militarism is destroyed," and 
England's navy-ism is left supreme to dominate the seas and render 
all other nations subject on the waters which constitute three-fourths 
of the earth's surface and as much of the world's opportunity. 

The surprising thing in all this series of historical events is that 
no nation has learned the lesson of them. England has always found 
and always finds some nation to help her pull her chestnuts out of 
the fire, some catspaw to help her appropriate another nation's com- 
merce and colonies. In England's war against France in 1815 it was 
Germany which was allied with England and which gave the de- < 
cisive blow which eliminated France as England's rival. la 1915 
it is France which is allied with England and which is doing much 
more than England herself to eliminate Germany from England's 
path to world power. One would think that the nations of Europe 
would see the folly of continually fighting one another to further i 
England's vaulting ambitions toward the control of the world in her 
own interest. j 

But before we criticize others, let us make sure that we are awake 
to our own folly. Is not England using us as a catspaw also? Is not 
England employing us to destroy her rival, Germany, and to establish 
herself more firmly in the hegomony of the seas — her seas and our 
seas? Are we not being bribed to sacrifice our own best interests 
as well as our moral scruples and to send arms to England so that 
she can exterminate the Germans and obliterate Germany and possess 
herself of Germany's commerce and colonies? 

Are we not strengthening England and her ally, Japan, in their 
control of the ocean highways which lead to our very doors? Are 
we not as foolish as the most foolish of the European nations which 
draw England's chestnuts out of the fire to their own injury? Have 

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we not had sufficient experience of how England employs her com- 
mand of the seas? If we have not had sufficient experience in the 
past, are we not having it now? Do we not see how our neutral 
commerce is being destroyed, how a chief staple of our production is 
being vitally injured? Worse than all, if we are patriotic and liberty- 
loving citizens, do we not see how our rights are being invaded and 
violated ? 

We can send our arms to England because England needs them 
to murder Germans and to establish herself more firmly as empress 
of all the sea and mistress of most of the land, but we cannot send our 
peaceful products to neutral nations. We cannot exercise our rights 
because they interfere with England's ambitions and aggressions. 
Are we an independent nation, or an English colony? Have we a 
President who is a British subject or an American citizen? Have 
we any moral and any political virtue or are we subject to bribery in 
our moral sentiments and submissive to bullying in our political at- 
titudes? Are we quite sure that this is after all '*the home of the 
brave and the land of the free ?" If so, now is the time to demonstrate 
our bravery and assert our freedom. 

England has stopped our shipment of cotton. Let us stop our 
shipment of arms. Let us proclaim our moral courage, our political 
independence. Let us clearly define and courageously defend our 
rights. Let us be worthy of our ancestors, who fought for freedom 
and won it, who contended for "principle" and established it. Let 
us reaffirm the inspiring words of Pinckney, "Millions for defense, 
but not one cent for tribute." Let us be righteous and also just, in- 
dependent and also impartial. Let us say to Germany and England 
alike, "There are our rights, defy them if you dare." 

GEORGE W. O'REILLY. 

Why England Does Not Allow Us to Sell Any Cotton to 
Europe Now. 

William Randolph Hearst and Hoke Smith have both proved 
that it is not because it would help Germany; but to keep us from 
getting trade and commerce while England is busy trying to ex- 
terminate the Germans, because she could not compete with them. 
Our cotton is shut out from Europe so as to play hell with us and 
England can get our cotton cheaper. 

"The only reason cotton was put on the contraband list was to 
prevent American shipments and manufacture of cotton and cotton 
goods from growing while England was at war. 

It is a significant fact that many American cotton cargoes which 
have been seized by British cruisers have been taken to Manchester 
and sold, thus furnishing Manchester factories with cheap cotton to be 
manufactured and sold to Americans! 

A more unjustifiable mistreatment of a friendly neutral nation 
never occurred, and if the Administration had half the force and 
courage of many Administrations of the past would not submit the 
country to such mistreatment." — N. Y. American. 



To the Editor of The American: 

Sir — Referring to the article by George W. O'Reilly on your 
editorial page, would it not be advisable for you to tell the whole story 
of England's piratical history? For instance: the present generation 
of Englishmen and Americans are utterly unaware of the unjust 
methods pursued by England in obtaining her present possessions in 
China and India. She has as much moral right to Hong Kong, for 
example, as has any pirate who captured the property of another by 
superior force and held that property for all time through maintaining 
such superiority. She has as much right to Hong Kong as China 
would have to Ireland if China had been equipped with Armstrong 
guns against England's popguns, had captured Ireland and remained 
there ever since. 

As to India, I am privately informed that there are to-day two 
hundred thousand political prisoners in that unhappy land, but, of 
course, the censor would not allow such information to go abroad 
through the usual channels. Think of the arrogance of her attitude 
towards all mankind in her occupation of Gibraltar. 

CHAS. L. ROBINSON. 

New York City, August 25, 1915. 



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To the Editor of The American: 

Sir — Why is it that this is the first candid and thorough utterance 
on the subject of our relations to England since Grover Cleveland's 
remarks on the Venezuela question? Leaving out all references to 
the present Europena war and our position of neutrality, simply view- 
ing the matter as a question, of history and politics, why has the Amer- 
ican press for a quarter of a century carefully ignored the domineering, 
even insulting, and always injurious policy of England toward the 
United States? Why has the same press so regularly overlooked 
the alliance between England and Japan, which a one-eyed laborer 
could see was intended to dispute American control of the Pacific, to 
strengthen English control of the Atlantic and to secure indirect con- 
trol of the Panama Canal for English and Japanese commerce? 

Your attitude during the European war has been so American, 
so fair, so honorable that the entire community has become your 
debtor. JOHN TALBOT SMITH, 

Rector R. C. Church, Dobbs Ferry. 

New York, August 25, 1915. 

To the Editor of The American: 

Sir — Allow me to congratulate you upon your splendid editorial 
in this morning's issue of the New York American. It deserves the 
praise of every good American and certainly will open the eyes of a 
great number of people. 

I am a German-born American citizen, and because I do not want 
this country to become a vassal of England is no reason that I am 
not a loyal American. K^ep up your good work. 

GEORGE A. GRETZSCHEL. 

New York, August 25, 1915. 

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To the Editor of The American: 

Sir — Permit me to congratulate 3^011 on one of the ablest (and 
timely) of your many able and American editorials in these days 
when it is a criminal offense not to sneeze every time King George 
takes snuff. I have read all of the English papers in New York and 
I am free to say you are the only American editor among them. 

E. COSTELLO. 

August 25, 1915. 

British Militarism on the Sea— The Real Menace 

"Militarism on the sea is an admirable thing, so long as it is 
British militarism. That is the British view which the world is asked 
to accept. 

How can the United States be expected to rest at ease, without 
increasing its navy, in the face of Great Britain's determination to 
build such a gigantic navy? How can there be any assurance of 
peace in the world while one nation plans to dominate all the others 
in every sea? 

Great Britain appeals for the sympathy of the world, and espe- 
cially for the sympathy of the United States, on the ground that she 
is 'fighting America's battle against militarism.' Germany is held 
up as an ogre to frighten Americans. 'Germany's great military 
machine is denounced as a menace to the world, which must be de- 
stroyed before Europe or America can be secure.' 

'But what about British militarism?' 'What about the mobile 
military machine which England can move against our ports and 
against the Panama Canal?' 'Germany's army is not a menace to 
the United States, because it cannot come to these shores. 'But 
Britain's navy can come, and it can bring an army with it.' 

If Great Britain is honestly trying to do away with militarism 
and lift the burden of war taxes from all people, it is high time that 
a declaration should be made that the British navy will be curtailed." 
— From the Washington Post, December 19, 1914. 

How Germany Put It Over England In Business. 1 

In January's Everybody's, William Ward has a very able article 
on England, France, Russia and Germany. He tells about an ac- 
quaintance of his that made a technical invention and it was neces- 
sary to have financial backing to push it. Mr. Ward relates the 
experience of his friend with the bankers in America, England and 
Germany to show the German thoroughness. In England the bank- 
ers "bathed and did a bit of business, and did a bit of tennis and 
bathed, and were fresh-cheeked and fresh-minded and civilized. But 
at the end of two weeks their conception of the technical scope of the 
invention was limited — very limited." He had not been in Berlin 
twenty-four hours before he was waited on by an industrial chemist 
representing a large bank. "In twenty minutes, for the first time on 
either side of the Atlantics, my friend got his invention and its scope 

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completely understood by a member of the regular working staff of 
a bank. And what was the net step? We will put so much money 
into this proposition. And we will keep it there. And we will give 
you commercial advice straight along from so-an-so in our organiza- 
tion. We conclude that your invention has such-and-such possi- 
bilities. We will cooperate with you in developing those possibilities, 
commercial and scientific." It is this Germain trait of thoroughness, 
system that John Bull cannot compete with in commercial and in- 
dustrial afifairs. 

From a book on "Modern Germany," written by an Englishman, 
J. E. Barker, before the war : "The introduction of protection in 1879 
converted a backward agricultural country into a wealthy industrial, 
commercial and maritime state. Bismarck introduced his protective 
tariff in 1879 with the deliberate and avowed object of transferring 
part of the industries and the wealth of Great Britain to Germany, 
and his policy has succeeded only too well. 

"Largely owing to Germany's surprising development as an in- 
dustrial nation, Great Britain is ceasing to be the workshop of the 
world, and Germany is rapidly attaining her place. 

"I would, therefore, draw attention to the following most in- 
structive and significant figures, which sum up the most recent in- 
dustrial development of Germany in two lines : Imports of raw ma- 
terial into Germany in 1894 was $416,475,000; in 1900, was $1,270,- 
825,000. Exports manufactured goods from Germany in 1894 was 
$469,850,000; in 1910, was $1,198,875,000. During the short period 
of 1894-1910, while Great Britain has but halteringly increased her 
exports of manufactured goods, Germany has exactly trebled her im- 
ports of raw materials, and nearly trebled her exports of manufactures. 

Formerly Germany sold to Great Britain raw materials and food 
and brought from us our manufactured goods. Germany was Great 
Britain's farm, and Great Britain was Germany's factory. Now Ger- 
many exports to Great Britain chiefly manufactures of every kind, and 
receives in return principally raw materials and food. 

"Savings bank deposits in Germany in 1880 were $653,450,000; 
in 1911 were $4,500,000,000. Savings banks deposits in Great Britain 
in 1880 were $388,605,420, in 1911 were $41,109,514,200. During the 
period of protection, 1880-1911, the German people have placed $3,- 
800,000,000 and the British people have placed only $6,950,000 into 
the savings banks, while between 1900 and 1911, the German people 
have placed $2,295,000,000 and the British people only $9,500,000 
into savings banks. During these eleven years the German savings 
banks deposits have grown more than eleven times as quickly as the 
British savings banks deposits. It is worth noting that more than 
$3,500,000,000 of the German savings banks deposits consists of 
small sums which have been put into these banks by people belonging 
to the working class. 

"The foregoing should suffice to show that Germany's abound- 
ing prosperity is largely due to certain temporary conditions which 

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the short-sightedness of English administrations and the far-sighted- 
ness of Bismarck and his successors have created." 

Senator Borah, of Idaho, says: *'As far back as 1910 one of the 
leading journals published an article, under the signature of a prom- 
inent Englishman, in which it was said: 'At present Germany sends 
only some fifty million pounds ($250,000,000) worth, or about one- 
seventh of her total domestic produce, to the markets of the world 
outside of Europe, to the United States. Does any man who under- 
stands the subject think there is any power in Germany, or, indeed, 
any power in the world, which can prevent Germany, she having thus 
accomplished the first stage of her work, from now closing with 
Great Britain for her ultimate share of the oversea trade? Here it is 
that we unmask the shadow that looms like a real presence behind the 
moves of the present day diplomacy.' 

"In another article it was boldly said that the only safety for 
England lay in the destruction of the power of Germany." 

"Well, when the first really great German ocean-liner was 
launched, a leading English newspaper said: ^Germany must be de- 
stroyed.' It is notorious that Germans have been deftly taking the 
world's markets away from the English, wherever they compete, 
which is a beastly thing, y'know, especially when the beggars do it 
by being more thoro, working harder, using more brains and less 
haughtiness, more business skill and friendliness and less rum, bibles 
and 'expeditionary forces.' The best unbiased writers say that this 
is the cause of the war; reason confirms it ; the gloating of the English 
day by day, as reports of the capture and sinking of German ships 
come in, makes it sure. Furthermore, as a political corrollary of her 
mercantile policy, England has always destroyed her greatest rival, 
deliberately and ruthlessly." — From "The Catechism of Balaam, Jr." 



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CHAPTER XXI. 

HOW THAT BLOODY PIRATE TREATS 
WEAK NATIONS 

John Bull Shot Down Inoffensive Boer Women in the Name of 

British Liberty. 

The Boers had valuable mines, and John Bull planned war to crush the 
Boers and get their mines. But the English people were opposed to that 
kind of a war. So John Bull had to do something to stir the English people 
so that they would be willing to go to war against the Boers. England 
always aims to have it look as though she has the humanity side of the war. 
A member of Parliament, J. Ramsay MacDonald, tells how they stirred the 
British people so they would go to war against the Boers, by publishing lies 
in the Daily Mail, that the Boers were thrashing and flogging British women 
and children in South Africa. In the cause of humanity England went to war. 

The British went to war with the Boers because of the lies that the 
British women and children were being flogged. But the real cause of the 
war was that the Boers had valuable mines, and they hung on to them, 
which enraged that notorious highway robber and assassin, who went down 
there and began killing off the Boers, burning their houses and laying the 
country desolate. Because some of the men would not surrender, John Bull 
shot down women. The British herded the women and children in camps, 
and the British admit that 14,000 died of starvation and disease. The Boers 
and Irish claim that about 25,000 died in those camps. Because some of the 
men would not surrender, the British would shoot into those camps and kill 
women and children. And when the men surrendered the British lined them 
up to be shot, and dragged their wives up and made them look on while they 
were shot. The war cost 250,000 lives and about $11,000,000,000. The hell and 
destruction that the British caused in South Africa was much more greater 
than what has been done to Belgium. That Britisher, C. H. Norman, says: 
"Even now Belgium has not been laid waste as the Boer republics were by 
Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts." 

The way John Bull shot down the Boer women and burned their homes 
and made them look on when he executed their husbands for fighting for 
their homes and property, proves that he is the same heathen he was when 
he armed thousands of Indians and turned them loose on our Ohio frontier 
and bought the scalps of our massacred people as though they had been wolf 
scalps, a tribe that must be exterminated. Read "Johnny Appleseed," of 
Harper Bros., 1915; it is a true and absorbing romance of a man who spent 
his whole life unselfishly bringing sunshine to those isolated settlers. He 
was through it all and saved scores of women and children from the savages 
that England had armed and urged on, even buying the scalps of our mas- 

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sacred settlers. You may as well expect a hungry lion to refuse to eat a fat 
sheep, as to expect the British lion to not be heartless and diabolical. 

"What right did England have to destroy the Boer republic? 

"Assuming that the Boers gave foreigners few or no rights, is that any 
reason, from the American viewpoint, why any nation should send a huge 
army there to destroy the republic? Right here in the United States the 
Japanese, with true British instincts, want the right to buy and own land 
in California, equal with Americans. California has denied them such right. 
According to your correspondents, Japan's next move is the conquest of 
California. Every nation has the inherent right to say who shall and who 
shall not be citizens. Sovereignty, as the basis of ownership in all property, 
has the right to freeze out foreigners if the sovereign so desires. Did not 
Great Britain in British Guiana confiscate all oil rights, and through the 
provincial parliament pass a law making British citizenship an essential 
to owning such oil rights ? An American citizen cannot buy or own oil rights 
in British Guiana to-day. The writer has in his possession a copy of this 
law. 

"If the United States were to follow the very bad example set by England 
in South Africa it would send an army down to British Guiana to annex 
It. or, if the United States retaliated in kind upon British subjects, it would 
force every Englishman here to sell American property. Judging by what 
happened after, the Boers were right in protecting their property. Were 
Boer measures of self-protection a vice in South Africa, while similar British 
measures were a virtue in British Guiana? Let us be honest with ourselves. 
Let us be Americans if we wish to be right. We are hypocrites if as a 
republic we sympathize with monarchies. We adjured monarchy 138 years 
ago. 

WAYNE MORRIS. 
New York, November 10, 1914." — From New York Globe. 

John Bull Was Having Such Domestic Troubles That He Went To 

War To Get Relief. 

The ferocious suffragettes of England were burning depots and churches, 
residences and other buildings; burning and destroying mail; pouring mo- 
lasses into letter boxes; destroying masterpieces of art so that public gal- 
leries had to be closed; breaking plate-glass windows; mobbing officials; 
breaking into the Queen's castle and terrorizing her. They did not know 
what next would happen. But the Queen can rest now; by going to war 
they have stopped all this unrest and agitation and all without granting fe- 
male suffrage. And in an interview to a New York American, Miss Cris- 
tabel Pankhurst said she believed this war would sweep away all barriers 
to female suffrage in England. It is a ferocious brand of suffragettes that 
would welcome this war as a means of securing the ballot. American women 
are not that kind. King Edward said: "Why cannot our women be smart 
like the American women." If our ladies want to vote, I am not one to 
deny them that right. John Bull was having such domestic troubles that 
he was glad to go to war to get relief. 

That American, John L. Stoddard, the famous traveller, author and 
lecturer on the different countries of the world, was in Europe when war 



broke out. He says: "You know that last July the fate of the English Gov- 
ernment was critical. A civil war was imminent in Ulster. Shots had been 
fired in Dublin. The Cabinet knew that any day the ground might sink 
beneath their feet. Hence, eager to avert internal trouble, they grasped with 
joy the long-waited opportunity to join with others (for England never 
fights a European power alone), in ruining German commerce and destroy- 
ing the German fleet. How can England, of all nations, talk of violating in- 
ternational rights? Her wars in Asia, Africa and Egypt have been waged 
for conquest and the carrying out of her imperial policy. Think of her 
war against the Boers, universally reprobated abroad and largely condemned 
at home!" 

John Bull wanted this war more than any other nation. In 1914 he had 
the jimjams, he knows. You pirate, the summer of 1914 your rotten affairs 
were shaking, wabbling; your queen was in terror and your lump of dirt 
was overshadowed with gloom as dark as your cockney fogs. You welcomed 
this war with both hands. Even your belligerent female suffrage convincers 
welcomed it. Retribution aplenty will come home to you for your bloody 
deeds. The mills of the gods may be a little slow in starting up; but when 
the grinding is through almighty John Bull will have kissed the dust. The 
nations that forget God shall be turned into the grave, that is hell (Ps. ix, 17). 

John Bull Assassinates Weak Governments. 

Captain Edwin Emerson of New York says: "Most of you probably re- 
member the time when Dr. Jameson with several hundred armed English- 
men made his famous raid into the neutral Boer republic. When the German 
Emperor in a friendly telegram to President Krueger intimated what he 
thought of this breach of neutrality England got so aroused that she mo- 
bilized and made a naval demonstration against Germany. Dr. Jameson 
since then has been rewarded by knighthood and other official British honors. 

"I was a war correspondent in the Far East and saw with my own 
eyes how England's ally, Japan, without even a declaration of hostilities, 
broke into neutral Korea, and after marching through this neutral country 
broke into neutral Manchuria, where the rest of the great Russo-Japanese 
war was fought out, always on neutral soil. I never heard then of England 
raising one word of protest against her ally's breaches of Chinese neutrality, 
which have been repeated but lately in Shantung before the fall of Tsing- 
tao. The truth is that England does not care a fig about any principles 
of neutrality wherever her own interests are concerned. After all, neutrality 
is a mere international convention." — From N. Y. Times. 

Russian Atrocities in Persia. 

England stood by in silence while Russia was inaugurating a reign of 
terror in her sphere of Persia. Photographs of the inhuman outrages were 
printed. Some were unprintable. "It remains to be seen," said the cor- 
respondent of the New York Times under date of September 14, 1912, 
"whether a McGahan or a Gladstone will arise to arouse the country to 
flame, such as that which followed the Bulgarian atrocities and altered the 
map of the southeastern Europe." 



The McGahan developed in the person of G. Turner, "who sent to the 
Manchester Guardian an article, charging the Russian troops with the indis- 
criminate shooting of men, women and children in Tabriz, as well as with 
unspeakable atrocities by their Persian Governor, including beating men to 
death, sewing up the mouths oi Constitutionalists, nailing iiorseslioes to 
men's feet, and driving them through the bazaars, and with a general hanging 
vendetta against all who were even supposed to favor the new Persian Con- 
stitution." Prof. Browne also wrote to the Manchester Guardian, stating 
that he had obtained photographs which left no doubt of the horrible char- 
acter of the atrocities perpetrated in Tabriz. Two of these photographs are 
so dreadful that publication is impossible. *'A correspondent of the Natio)i 
wrote, demanding their publication, 'so that Englishmen might understand 
the price, paid in blood, and national honor, for the Anglo-Russian alliance.' "' 
— (Cabel New York Times, September 14, 1912.) — From The Fatherland. 

John L. Stoddard, who really understands Europena nations and was 
over there when the war started, said: "The Emperor William is not, as has 
been represented to you, the cause and promoter of it. The blame for this 
lies primarily at the door of Russia. Two years ago, a prominent Russian 
official said to me: 'In 1915 you will see greath things. Russia has recup- 
erated from the Japanese war, and is burning to recover her lost prestige. 
The Russian war party cannot be restrained. You will soon see the Teuton's 
land inundated by the Slavic flood.' Why did Russia intervene in behalf of 
Servia? Do you suppose for one moment, in view of her infamous home 
record and her treatment of the many races crushed by her, that she did this 
from any motive of chivalry ? You know what Russia is. Only a short time 
ago England was holding up her hands in horror at her cruelties and perfidy. 
Prince Kropotkin, the Russian revolutionist, gave me not long since a book 
of his describing present conditions in Russia and said to me: *The facts I 
have related here are absoultely true, and are so horrible that, while writing 
them, I have scarcely been able to sleep.' " 

Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., says: "This was not the first time that Sir 
Edward Grey had joined hands with Russia. In 191 1 it was part of Sir 
Edward Grey's policy to assist Russia in crushing the newly organized liberal 
government in Persia. At that time it did not appear to have been part of his 
conviction that it was England's duty to protect weaker Powers. Those who 
were present and heard Mr. Morgan Shuster in his address before the Aca- 
demy of Political Science, in this city, a few years ago, will remember the 
impression that they received of the way in which Sir Edward Grey went 
hand in glove with Russia merely because he wished to retain Russia as an 
ally against Germany. Those who did not hear Mr. Shuster should read his 
book, 'The Strangling of Persia' (New York, 1912) and particularly the 
paragraph on page 252, in which Mr. Shuster shows how, ever since 1907, 
the plan of 'drawing a circle around Germany' was carried out by England 
through an entente with Russia on the north and with France on the south." 

Rev. Dixon, an English clergyman, declares in the Manchester Labor 
Leader: "England is fighting against Europe's most progressive, most sci- 
entific nation, as the ally of Russia, the most repulsive, cruel and despotic 
nation in Europe." 

Dr. A. H. Chaikin said in the New York American: "The entire policy 

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of the Russian (jovefnnieilt — even its international diplomacy — is based on 
cunning, deceit and treachery. What does the reactionary phitocratic govern- 
ment of Russia care for republican France or democratic England? On the 
contrary, Russia is in constant fear of the influence of Western civilization. 
To reduce her more enlightened neighbors would be to lessen their 'malignant' 
influence upon her subjects, which would mean to perpetuate her own abso- 
lutism. 

"Imagine the ignorant, half-civilized, totally illiterate, almost heathen 
moujik fighting side by side with the French and English for — the emanci- 
pation of Europe from the oppression of the menacing Teutons. Oh, what 
irony ! Well, whatever the outcome of this gigantic war will bring to the 
allies, it will open their eyes." 

England Bombarded Neutral Denmark. 

George Bernard Shaw (now don't any of you unsophisticated pro-Eng- 
lish imagine Mr. Shaw is German), says: "The last time we were engaged 
in a European war ... we suddenly bombarded and plundered the capital 
of a neutral state, Denmark, without declaring war on her. Those among 
us who maintain we should long ago have sunk the German fleet without 
notice by a nocturnal raid have relied on this precedent. I have in my hand 
No. 5 of Der Zeitgeist, a supplement to the Berliner Tageblatt. It con- 
tains a series of extracts from a register of 1807, giving, with translations 
in parallel column, the royal proclamation and the ministerial speeches in 
which this bombardment was justified. 

The justification is Von Bethmann-Hollweg's justification of the on- 
slaught on Belgium — necessity, self-preservation as the first law of nature. 
One speaker, Milnes, said: *It was the most flagitious of all descriptions 
of morality that would allow an opportunity of self-preservation to pass by 
unimproved.' 

The Berliner Tageblatt sardonically offers all this without word of com- 
ment. It will be quoted throughout Germany and sedulously circulated in 
America. It will destroy not only all confidence in, but all patience with 
those writers who persist in begging for moral excuses at the expense of 
Germany, instead of buckling to single-mindedly at the job of fighting 
her. But it will not hurt me. 

I said from the first that if we had been in Germany's peril we should 
have gone through Belgium as she did, and justified ourselves by the same 
arguments, and if I have any of the weight abroad with which you credit 
me, it is because I have steadfastly resisted temptation to impose on for- 
eigners with phraisical nonsense and have faced the stern fact that we, like 
ihe Germans, have committed ourselves for good or for evil to win through 
by blood and iron and not by the exhibition of good conduct medals awarded 
by ourselves." — New York American, February 2y, 1915. 

"Many wonderful things were forecasted as likely to occur under the 
British regime in South Africa; hut the world still awaits something newer 
than the old tyranny of capitalism. 

"Another argument for the war is that the prinicple of the freedom 
of nationalities is involved. On which side? Germany and Austria have 
been promised partition by the genial Tsar and the witty Frenchman ! 

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In the past twelve years, there have been five States whose independence 
has been taken from them without any protest from Britain. They were 
all examples where the nationalities were distinct. The Transvaal and the 
Orange Free State had their independence destroyed by Britain. Persian 
integrity was broken into by the thieves' covenant of 1907 between Russia 
and Britain; and Mr. Morgan Schuster, the American who was reorganizing 
Persian financial administration, was expelled through Russo-British in- 
trigue. Morocco was partitioned between France and Spain with British 
connivance. The case of Korea was almost parallel to that of Belgium. 
The independence and neutrality of Korea were guaranteed by Japan, Rus- 
sia, Britain and France, under a number of Treaties. The Korean Queen was 
fouly murdered by Japanese agents. The Japanese, some time afterward, 
invaded Korea and compelled the Koreans to fight against Russia in the 
Russo-Japanese War. Russia and Korea protested to Britain and France; 
but, on that occasion, which was a far more shameless breach in international 
law, Britain and France thought it convenient to forget their 'obligations of 
honor,' 'their written bond,' 'their sacred covenant,' or whatever high- 
sounding phrase may occur to the recruiting orators of the Cabinet ! Korea 
was annexed by the Japanese, and has regretted her unhappy fate ever since. 
The Germans were not parties to any of these touching incidents in the 
War of Liberation on behalf of small nationalities; probably, because they 
zvere elbowed out by the Triple Entente. Mr. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey, 
by the way, were the two prominent Liberal leaders who deserted Sir Henry 
Campbell-Bannerman when the latter was endeavoring to obtain some vm- 
dertaking that the independence of the Orange Free State would be pre- 
served. The sudden affection for principle exhibited by Mr. Asquith nowa- 
days is somewhat unconvincing when compared with past events in his life." 
— From "England on the Witness Stand." 



John Bull Calls Himself the ^^Honest Ruler.'' 

The Rev. Dr. Frank Crane Says: "England's Missions Is To Syn- 

thetize the World." On the Next Page Is a Picture 

of Some of That Pirate's Synthetizing. 

England Tied These People To Cannons and Blew Them To Pieces. 

Because these natives tried to clean out the British rulers. Then John 
Bull blew a lot of the leaders from cannons in sight of the natives to ter- 
rify them and make them submit to their robberous rule and starvation. 
Millions of them were reduced to starvation and died under British liberty. 
Ireland was a prosperous country and England fixed that ; exterminated their 
manuf acturies ; murdered, robbed and taxed them until they were reduced 
to poverty and starvation and the population cut in half. England is always 
murdering some one in the name of British liberty. England tried to do us 
up in two .wars to give us some of that blasted liberty. We got a little taste 
of British liberty — the kind England has given Ireland for generations. It 
was great stuff. But George Washington could not stomach the concoction. 
Canada and Australia would had the same British liberty as Ireland if it 
had not been for George Washington and others that England called rebels. 

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No wonder they do not like The Life of George Washington, Benjamin 
Franklin, and "From the Log Cabin to the White House," in the London 
libraries. The lives of such men is 'Vulgar Americanism" and "blarstedly 
offensive" to the British stiff, the king, "don't yer know?" They may 
recently have condescended to admit them since this country is diabolically 
doing more for the allies than Japan and the administration is so pro-British 
as to submit to whatever Dear Old Hingland does to do up our commerce 
under the pretense of starving the Germans. No wonder the London Times 
calls the Americans "idiotic Yankees." Pretending to starve out Germany, 
so as to fool the Americans while they are doing up our commerce. Hearst 
gives it to them and the professor. 

India To-day, By Ernest P. Horrwitz. 

Formerly Professor of East Indian Literature at Dublin University. 
Author of "The Indian Theatre" (Glasgow and Bombay, 1912). 

FAMINE IN INDIA. 







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LX FAMHn AV3 



This cartoon is taken from Le Rire in 1899 



To the Editor of the American: 

Sir: — "India is vindicating Britain's honest rule in the Far East!" say 
the latest London papers. That is exactly what India is not doing. All sorts 
and conditions of Hindus are seething with deep-set resentment against an 
inefficient British officialdom which has been sucking the very lifehood of 
their now impoverished country. Native India never had any freedom of 
speech under British rule. 

Because Tilak vigorously attacked that rule with tongue and pen, that 
brilliant Hindu scholar who claimed, on astronomical grounds, for the oldest 
Vedic texts a date as remote as 6000 B. C., had to suffer the hardships of a 
tropical prison. But the late labor leader, Keir Hardie, M.P., who held even 
more radical views on the subject than Tilak, was free to agitate in Bengal 
and openly sow the seeds of sedition. 

The reason for this one-sided liberty of the British race is that Tilak 
was but a native, while Keir Hardie was an Englishman. Poor India has been 

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squeezed out like a lemon by her honest ruler, as that selfish brute, John 
Bull, is often represented in the British press. Indian civil servants, after a 
lazy official life, are sent home to England, comparatively young, with full 
pockets and a substantial pension. The native exchequer has to pay, though 
the money is not spent in India, but goes out of the country !— Earnest P. 
Horrwitz, New York City, October 15, 191 5. 

Chas L. Robinson, of New York City, says: "As to India, I am privately 
informed that there are to-day two hundred thousand political prisoners in 
that unhappy land, but, of course, the censor would not allow such informa- 
tion to go abroad through the usual channels." 

John Bull and China. 

John Bull wanted to force his commerce upon China, but China would 
have nothing to do with him. So John drew up his cannons and opened up 
Chinese cities with cannon balls. John Bull wanted China to use opium but 
the Emperor said no, it will make opium fiends of my people. John Bull 
went to war with China and made China pay the expenses of that war. When 
the emperor signed the treaty he did it with tears in his eyes, because it 
would make opium fiends of his people. 

Here Is How Your Bloody John Bull Tortured the Yellow Race 
As Described by an English Statesman. 

You pro-British maniacs, this book has got the facts all the way along 
to make you howl and cuss. 

"Debi Sing and his instruments suspected, and in a few cases they sus- 
pected justly, that the country people had purloined from their own estates, 
and had hidden in secret places in the circumjacent deserts, some small reserve 
of their own grain, to maintain themselves during the unproductive months 
of the year, and to leave some hope for a future season. But the under- 
tyrants knew that the demands of Mr. Hastings would admit no plea for delay, 
much less for the subtraction of his bribe; and that he would not abate a 
shilling of it to the wants of the whole human race. These hoards, real or 
supposed, not being discovered by menaces and imprisonment, they fell upon 
the last resource, the naked bodies of the people. And here, my Lords, began 
such a scene of cruelties and tortures as I believe no history has ever pre- 
sented to the indignation of the world; — such as I am sure, in the most bar- 
barous ages, no politic tyranny, no fanatic persecution, has ever yet exceeded. 

"My Lords, they began by winding cords round the fingers of the unhappy 
freeholders of those provinces, until they clung to and were almost incorpor- 
ated with one another ; and then they hammered wedges of iron between them, 
until, regardless of the cries of the sufferers, they had bruised to pieces and 
forever crippled those poor, honest, innocent, laborious hands, which had never 
been raised to their mouths but with a penurious and scanty proportion of the 
fruits of their own soil; but those fruits (denied to the wants of their own 
children) have furnished the investment of our trade with China, and been 
sent annually out, and without recompense, to purchase for us that delicate 
meal with which your Lordships, and all this auditory, and all this country, 
have begun every day for these fifteen years at their expense. To those 

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beneficent hands that labor for Our benefit the return of the Bntish govern- 
„"nt has been cords and hammers and wedges. But there ,s a pl-e where 
these crippled and disabled hands will act with resistless power. What is t 
tha they will not pull down, when they are lifted to Heaven against their 
oppresso^rs' Then what can withstand such hands? Can the power that 
crushed and destroyed them? Powerful in prayer, let us at least deprecate 
and thus endeavor to secure ourselves from, the vengeance which these 
■nashed and disabled hands may pull down upon us. My Lords, it is an awful, 
consideration ! Let us think of it. 

"But to pursue this melancholy but necessary detail. I am next to open 
to vour Lordships, that the most substantial and leading yeomen, the respon- 
sibfermers the parochial magistrates and chiefs of villages were tied two 
and two by the legs together; and their tormentors, throwing them with heir 
heads downwards: ove? a bar, beat them on the soles of the feet with rattans 
untn the nails fel from the toes; and then attacking them at their heads as 
"hey hung downward, as before at their feet, they beat them with sticks and 
other instruments of blind fury, until the blood gushed out at their eyes 
mouths and noses Not thinking that the ordinary whips and cudgels, even 
so administered tere sufficient, to others (and often to the same who had 
ufferS as I have stated) they applied, instead of rattan and bamboo whips 
made of Ae branches of the bale-tree,-a tree full of sharp and strong thorns, 
whkh tear the skin and lacerate the flesh far worse than ordinary scourges^ 
For others, exploring with a searching and inquisitive malice stimulated by 
In insatiat^ rapacity! all the devious paths of Nature for whatever is most 
unfriendly to m'ah, they made rods of a plant high y caustic -^ P-sonous 
called Bchcttea, every wound of which festers and gangrenes, adds double 
and treble to the present torture, leaves a crust « leprous sores upon the 
body, and often ends in the destruction of life itself. At night these poor 
innocent sufferers, these martyrs of avarice and extortion, were brought nt^ 
dungeons; and, in the season when nature takes refuge m insensibility from 
all the miseries and cares which wait on life, they were three times scourged, 
and made to reckon the watches of the night by periods and intervals of tor- 
ment They were then led out, in the severe depths of wmter, which there at 
certahi seasons would be severe to any. to the Indians is ^^t .^^^ ^'l^- 
almost intolerable,-they were led out before break of day, and, stiff and sore 
as they were with the bruises and wounds of the night, were plunged into 
water; and. whilst their jaws clung together with the cold, and their bodies 
were rendered infinitely more sensible, the blows and stnpes were renewed 
upon their backs; and then, delivering them over to soldiers they were 
sent into their farms and villages to discover where the few handfuls of grain 
might be found concealed, or to extract some loan from the remnants ot 
compassion and courage not subdued in those who had reason to fear that . 
their own turn of torment would be next, and that their very humanity, being 
taken as a proof of their wealth, would subject them (as it did in many cases j 
subjects them) to the same inhuman tortures. After this circuit of the day [ 
through their plundered and ruined villages, they were remanded at night to J| 
the same prison, whipped, as before, at their return to the dungeon, and at, 
morning whipped at their leaving it, and then sent, as before, to purchase S 
by begging in the day, the reiteration of the torture in the night. Days of 

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menace, insult, and extortion, nights ^of bolts, fetters, and flagellation, suc- 
^ ceeded to each other in the same round, and for a long time made up all the 
vicissitudes of life to those miserable people. 

"But there are persons whose fortitude could bear their own suffering; 
there are men who are hardened by their very pains, and the mind, strengthened 
even by the torments of the body, rises with a strong defiance against its op- 
pressor. They were assaulted on the side of their sympathy. Children were 
scourged almost to death in the presence of their parents. This was not 
enough. The son and father were bound close together, face to face and body 
to body, and in the situation cruelly lashed together, so that the blow which 
escaped the father fell upon the son, and the blow which missed the son 
^ wound over the back of the parent. The circumstances were combined with 
so subtle a cruelty, that every stroke which did not excruciate the sense should 
wound and lacerate the sentiments and affections of nature. 

"Oil the same principle, and for the same ends, virgins, who had never seen 
the Sun, were dragged from the inmost sanctuaries of their houses, and in 
the open court of justice, in the very place where security was to be sought 
against all wrong and all violence, (but where no judge or lawful magistrate 
had long sat, but, in their place, the ruffians and hangmen of Warren Hastings 
occupied the bench,) these virgins, vainly invoking Heaven and Earth in the 
presence of their parents, and whilst their shrieks were mingled with the 
indignant cries and groans of all the people, publicly were violated by the 
lowest and wickedest of the human race. Wives were torn from the arms of 
their husbands, and suffered the same flagitious wrongs, which were indeed 
. hid in the bottoms of the dungeons in which their honor and their liberty 
' were buried together. Often they were taken out of the refuge of this con- 
soling gloom, stripped naked, and thus exposed to the world, and then cruelly ^ 
scourged; and, in order that cruelty might riot in all the circumstances that 
melt into tenderness the fiercest natures, the nipples of their breasts were put 
between the sharp and elastic sides of cleft bamboos. Here in my hand is 
my authority ; for otherwise one would think it incredible. But it did not end 
there. Growing from crime to crime, ripened by cruelty for cruelty, these 
fiends, at length outraging sex, decency, nature, applied lighted torches and 
slow fire — (I cannot proceed for shame and horror!) — these infernal furies 
planted death in the source of life ; and where that modesty which, more than 
reason, distinguishes men from beasts retires from the view, and even shrinks 
from the expression, there they exercised and glutted their unnatural, mon- 
strous and nefarious cruelty, — there where the reverence of nature and the 
' sanctity of justice dares not to pursue, nor venture to describe their practices. 
"These, my Lords, were sufferings which we feel all in common, in India 
and in England, by the general sympathy of our common nature. But there 
were in that province (sold to the tormentors by Mr. Hastings) things done, 
which, from the peculiar manners of India, were even worse than all I have 
laid before you; as the dominion of manners and the law of opinion con- 
tribute more to human happiness and misery than anything in mere sensitive 
nature can do.^ 

"The women thus treated lost their caste. My Lords, we are not here 
to commend or blame the institutions and prejudices of a whole race of 
people, radicated in them by a long succession of ages, on which no reason 

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or argument, on which no vicissitudes of ihings, no mixtures of men, or foreign 
conquest, have been able to make the smallest impression. The aboriginal 
Gentoo inhabitants are all dispersed into tribes or castes,— each caste born 
to an invariable rank, rights, and descriptions of employment, so that one 
caste cannot by any means pass into another. With the Gentoos, certain 
impurities or disgraces, though without any guilt of the party, infer loss of 
caste; and when the highest caste, that of Brahmin, which is not only noble, 
but sacred, is lost, the person who loses it does not slide down into one lower, 
but reputable,— he is wholly driven from all honest society. All the relations 
of life are at once dissolved. His parents are no longer his parents; his 
wife is no longer his wife ; his children, no longer his, are no longer to regard 
him as their father. It is something far worse than complete outlawry, com- 
plete attainder, and universal excommunication. It is a pollution even to 
touch him; and if he touches any of his old caste, they are justified in putting 
him to death. Contagion, leprosy, plague are not so much shunned. No 
honest occupation can be followed. He becomes an halicore, if (which is 
rare) he survives that miserable degradation."— Edmund Burke at the trial 
of AVarren Hastings. 

Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost forever to India. 

With us no pride erects stately monuments which repair the mischiefs 
that pride had produced, and which adorn a country out of its own spoils. 
England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England 
has built no bridges, made no highroads, cut no navigations, dug ho reservoirs. 
Every other conqueror of every description has left some monument, either 
of state or beneficence behind him. Were we to be driven out of India 
this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed during the 
inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the orang-outang 
or the tiger. — Edmund Burke, in 1783. 



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CHAPTER XXII. 

RUSSIA AND SERBIA TO START IT 

Would You Expect Tammany Hall to Send Up One of Their Mem- 
bers for Grafting? No, They Would Get Out the Whitewash 

Would you expect a gang of assassins to hang themselves for 
a murder? That is just the kind of a rotten deal that Russia tried to 
force upon Austria after Serbia had carried on an agitation against 
Austria in Austrian territory, which resulted in the assassination of 
the Archduke. Russia that, when the Chinese boat was sinking and 
the Chinese women pitched their babies ashore to keep them from 
drowning, the Russians caught the babies on their bayonets and cut 
them to pieces. This was when Russia in cold blood massacred the 
whole Chinese population of Blagovestchenk in 1900. Nothing worse 
than this massacre has been done by the unspeakable Turk is what 
F. E. Smith, a British writer on International law, said. Russia, that 
in Persia : 'T have seen photographs of the mangled disemboweled 
bodies of Persians as they hung head downward in the public streets. 
We (the British), the guarantors of Persian liberties, stood by on 
that occasion. Our duty was not to our interest," says an English- 
man, Clifford Allen, in a speech in England. After the heartless 
fiendish atrocities the Russians committed in Persia, when they 
strangled freedom there and boosted Mr. Schuster out — they have a 
record of barbarous assassinations and atrocities for centuries, and 
of course you ought to be convinced that the Russians are interested 
in Serbia just because the brutes are all at once so tenderhearted and 
humane. No one but a saphead American would imagine that Russia 
would go to war to protect the assassins in Serbia, because Russia 
wants justice done to Serbia. That is just what Russia did not want 
the assassins to get, and no efifort whatever was made by Serbia to 
punish the men who plotted that assassination. It was time for. 
Austria to take action and see that the Serbians were forced to do 
something. But barbarous Russia, England's pal, butts in, and I will 
show you what for further on. Russia mobilized for war before 
Austria mobilized, or had even declared war on Serbia and without 
waiting until the Czar's proposition to arbitrate had reached Austria. 
It was just like a fellow that would reach for his gun and then say 
I will arbitrate with you, but keeps right on drawing his gun. These 
are the facts about Russia in spite of what the lying pro-British here 
tell you about the Czar's sham offer to arbitrate. Russia from the 
very first was determined on war. September, 1914, the famous 
American lecturer and traveler, John L. Stoddard, was in Europe and 
said: "Two years ago a prominent Russian official said to me: Tn 
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1915 you will see great things. Russia has recuperated from the 
Japanese war, and is burning to recover her lost prestige The Rus- 
sian war party cannot be restrained. You will soon see the Teutons 
land inundated by the Slavic flood.' " Russia was back of the Serbian 
agitation in Austria which caused the assassination. 'Three different 
attempts were made on the part of the assassins, at separate places, 
within a short period of time." Almost a month passed and nothing 
was done by Serbia to harm those who plotted that murder. They 
celebrated it. Russia mobilized without waiting to see if Austria 
was going to mobilize or declare war on Serbia. 

Professor Herbert Sanborn, of Vanderbilt University, says : "So 
early as March, 1914, Russia was plainly contemplating immediate 
aggressive action toward the West. On March 12, in addition to the 
extremely large regular appropriation of $250,000,000 for the army, 
extraordinary military estimates of $60,000,000, an increase of 30 per 
cent ovef 1913, were submitted to the Duma; in addition to this, a 
loan of $400,000,000 (2,000,000,000 francs) was secured from the 
French Government to build strategic railways designed to facilitate 
the concentration of troops on the European and Caucasus frontiers. 
According to the Paris Journal des Debats this money was lent by 
France on the express condition that Russia 'should render fuller 
service to the alliance and should take up a firmer attitude toward 
Germany.' " 

The Czar asked the Kaiser to mediate between Austria and Serbia, 
and while the Kaiser was working for peace, the Czar mobilized for 
war, and he got it. Some assert that Austria unjustly annexed Bosnia- 
Herzegovina. But they always disregard the real situation which 
justified Austria. It is explained in "The European War of 1914; Its 
Causes, Purposes and Probable Results," by John William Burgess, 
Ph.D., J.U.D., LL.D., of A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, $1 ; also the 
pamphlet, "England on the Witness Stand," 15c. of The Fatherland, 
1123 Broadway, New York. Prominent men in England have put the 
blame for this war upon the allies, and these quotations on Serbia and 
Russia are from their pamphlet: ''England on the Witness Stand." 
It gives a quotation from "The Origins of the Great War," by H. H. 
Brailsford (British publication). 

The Treacherous Serbs 

"I remember at the close of the Balkan War in May, 1913, a 
yelling pack of Montenegrins at the parcel post office bawling, 'We, 
the Serb people, have beaten the Turk. We are a Power. We shall 
set Europe on fire.' They claimed that they had all got Russia sup- 
porting them, and stated repeatedly that they would begin in Bosnia." 
This was repeated to Miss Durham by army officers, diplomatists and 
others who knew what was going on. The Austrian Consul was mal- 
treated at Prizren so grossly that the secretary to General Vukotitch 
stated: "The foulest insults were levelled at him and the flag. . . . 
Austria dares not tell or she would be laughed at by all Europe and 

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forced to declare war." When that did not produce the desired 
quarrel, the Orthodox Catholics, of whom Austria is the guardian, 
were told that they would either have to abjure their faith or suffer 
death. The threats were carried out. Austria intervened, and 
sounded friendly States regarding an ultimatum to Servia. This is 
the "revelation" made in the Italian Chamber on the 7th of December, 
1914, which has been palmed off on a public that does not follow for- 
eign affairs, as something terribly sinister and as a complete proof 
that Austria had meant war for some years. Inquiry was forced upon 
the culprit State, the facts were proven and apologies had to be given. 
The powder again did not go off. The next time more care was taken. 
The heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated at Sarajero owing 
to a plot in which Servian officers were implicated and by bombs pre- 
pared in the Servian Government arsenal." 

Serbs Make a Promise to Be Good Only to Break It 

On March 31st, 1909, Servia made the following declaration to the 
Austrian Government : "Servia declares that she is not affected in her 
rights by the situation established in Bosnia, and that she will there- 
fore adapt herself to the decisions which the Powers are going to 
arrive at. . . . By following the counsels of the Powers, Servia binds 
herself to cease the attitude of protest and resistance which she has 
assumed since last October, relative to the annexation, and she binds 
herself further to change the direction of her present policy toward 
Austria-Hungary, and in the future to live with the latter in friendly 
and neighborly relations." ("Why we are at War," p. 144.) The 
charge brought against the Servian Government by Austria has been 
that that solemn undertaking was not adhered to in any way. 

What Mexico is to the United States, Serbia is to Austria- 
Hungary. Suppose the United States should brace up and give the 
greasers to understand that they had to punish those who kill Ameri- 
cans and had to be good, and because there is Latin blood in those 
bandits, Spain would say to America, you shall not be allowed to 
punish the Mexicans — a big country like you jumping on Mexico. 
You can arbitrate your trouble with Mexico at the Hague. Uncle 
Sam would say just what Austria said : This is not a case of elocu- 
tion ; it is a case of execution. The Servians repeatedly acknowledged 
their cussedness against Austria, only to go and do worse. Serbian 
officials and teachers were at the head of societies which kept up an 
agitation to bring on revolution in Austria-Hungary. The Serbian 
press united in such treachery. For Austria to resent such agitation 
always offended the Czar and brought Austria on the verge of war 
with Russian in 1913. This proves that Russia was back of the Serbs 
in their deviltry, as the Serbs themselves boasted. It was not a case 
of arbitration, but of execution. Liberty with the Serbs means 
assassination, as their bloody record after the Balkan war with Turkey 
demonstrated. The International Commission on the atrocities in 
the Balkan war reported the Serbs as the worst offenders. 

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A Sample of the Way the Lying Papers Here Deceive the People 
"Former Assassin Becomes Aged Angel" 

''King Peter of Serbia is fast becoming a sentimentally pathetic 
figure of fallen goodness, under the deft manipulation of part of the 
press. Yet, unless memory is at fault, this is the same Peter who 
obtained his throne a few years ago through the cruel and detestable 
double assassination of his predecessor and the woman who shared 
his palace. And, unless memory is again at fault, this is the same 
King Peter whom the United States and several other civilized 
nations were brought with difficulty to recognize at all as sovereign 
to whom decent States could send Ministers. 

"And, unless memory is again at fault, no protest against the rec- 
ognition of this accomplice and beneficiary of the savage murder of 
his predecessor was so strong and so indignant as the protest which 
found loud voice in the London press. 

''It is hard to avoid grinning these days over the agility with 
which so many staid and solemn journals turn the most surprising 
somersaults. Consider, for example, the case of aged King Peter: 
A few years ago he was a callous assassin. Now he is a heroic figure, 
whose pathetic fate moves all civilization to tears. Yes, it is hard not 
to grin." — N. Y. American, December 30, 1915. 

"Serbs Are a Nation of Soldiers and Poets?" 

Mrs. Pankhurst said with such rapture and hot air that the Serbs 
are "soldiers and poets." Here is a description of the Serbian soldiers 
by Douglass M. Dold, of Astoria, Long Island, who, with his brother, 
was in charge of an automobile relief squad to aid the Serbians: 
"Douglass was stricken partly blind by hardships, overwork and 
privations. On this account the brothers returned to their home 
December 24, 1915. Douglass had the honor of surrendering the 
City of Nish to the Bulgarians. When the great Bulgarian and Ger- 
man drive began through Serbia, the civil population began to flee. 
There was panic, disorder and confusion everywhere. While every- 
body had become accustomed to the sound of cannonading, it was 
when the Serbian troops began falling back through Nish in scattered 
detachments that the population began to realize the invaders were 
at hand. 

"Then, Douglass said, a Serbian regiment known as the Twen- 
tieth Puhk killed their Colonel and swooped down on Nish and began 
to loot the place. Douglass attempted to protect the hospital stores 
which were placed in his charge. He was knocked down and beaten 
by the soldiers who wasted the stores of alcohol and quinine. They 
also got away with 2,400 pairs of shoes. 

"After this regiment left the remnant of the population appealed 
to the Bishop of Nish to induce Douglass to surrender the city to the 
invading Bulgarians and ask for protection. 

"When the Bulgarians were within a short distance of the city, 
accompanied by the Bishop and a throng of young women bearing 

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garlands of flowers, Douglass says he started out to meet the invaders. 

"A big white flag was waved in front of the two men, when an 
officer of the invading Bulgarians rode forward, and was addressed 
first by the Bishop, who made frequent references to Douglass. 

" 'The Bishop said he was afraid the Bulgarians would cut all of 
their throats,' said Douglass last evening, 'and as I was an American 
with an American passport he wanted me to surrender the city and 
ask for protection. In his speech the Bishop kept saying I was there 
as an American to give them protection.' ... 

''I showed my passport and asked for protection of the city and 
the people. I also asked him to protect the hospital stores that were 
left from the looting Serbians. . . . 

''There were twenty-five automobiles in our squad when we left 
America, June 25. When we reached the port near Athens our auto- 
mobiles were held up by the Greek Government, which wanted an 
additional duty besides the usual rate of $2,500. We finally got the 
automobiles through. 

"We were hampered by untold red tape in Serbia, and I can tes- 
tify the Serbians are born joy riders. They never missed a chance to 
requisition a car for a little jaunt." — New York American, December 
25, 1916. 

The Serbs are birds and deserve what they got. England and 
France and Russia are bound together by their selfish interests under 
the name of Triple Entente. Germany and Austria-Hungary are tied 
together by their alliance. 

If you are convinced that Russia and Serbia were determined to 
get war with Austria-Hungary, you can skip the further discussion 
of Russia in this chapter. 

Why Turkey Went to War 

The lying press here tells you that Germany proded the Turk into it, 
and you hear little of the Turk's side of the story. Russia has coveted Con- 
stantinople for about two hundred years and has fought many wars for that 
prize and acknowledged that is what they want in this war. This war was 
started by Russia chiefly to secure an outlet in the Mediterranean. Emir Ali 
Pashe, Vice-president of the Turkish Chamber of Deputies, was interviewed 
by Edward Lyell Fox and says: "Russia has had this dream since the time 
of Peter the Great. Did he not write : 'It is not land I want, but water,' and 
has that not ever since been the cry of Russia? Almost from the day that 
Peter the Great tried to fight his way to the open sea, Russia has found across- 
her path the swords of nearly all the nations of Europe. More lately there 
is the Crimean war and the Russo-Turkish war. You may have heard that 
these were to protect the Christians. Bah !" and the Emir gestured force- 
fully. "They were both caused by politics of Russian diplomacy that wanted 
Constantinople. Three years ago she poured her money and secret agents 
into the Balkan states and tried to drive us out of Europe, not so that 
Bulgaria or Servia or Greece or Montenegro would profit, but that Russia 
would profit and seize the Dardanelles. Germany was our friend then, as she 
is now. Then on the top of her Balkan war failure, Russia tried another Pan- 

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Slavic league scheme and turned the Balkan hatred of Austria to her pur- i 

poses." 

Russia knew that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was well liked by the 
Slavic elements of Austria's population. With Franz Ferdmand commg 
to the throne, Russia's Pan-Slavic schemes would be impossible, so Servians 
whose country was flooded with Russian money and who were proven to 
have Servian official connections-if only through the medium of Servian 
army bullets-assassinate Franz Ferdinand, the enemy to Russia s inter- 
ests I don't know what other countries knew that the Austrian Archduke 
was going to be slain. I imagine that it was expected in other capitals of 
Europe beside Petrograd; but it was done in a thoroughly Russian way, 
and the war followed. 

"It was impossible for Turkey to keep out of the war," he said. "If Rus- 
sia was victorious, we knew in Constantinople that she would carry out 
her long cherished ambition and seize the Dardanelles. We were positive 
that England, who fought the Crimean war to prevent Russia from doing 
that very thing, and that her ally, France, would not be able successfully 
to object to the seizure of Constantinople. Thus the partition of Turkey 
would have been inevitable. We had to go into this fight for our very ex- 
istence, and we are fortunate in having so powerful an ally as Germany."— 
New York American, March 14, 191 5. 

One of the ablest and the most important man in the affairs of the 
Ottoman Empire is Talaat Bey and he says : "Turkey declared war without 
being urged by Germany or impelled by any other influence save those 
of the Empire; she engaged in military operations only when actions on the 
part of Russia and England made defensive measures necessary." 

The Turk is not going to be boosted out of Europe during this war. 
But the British (March 14), boasted that the Dardanelles will be theirs by 
Easter. Last October, 19 14, John Bull bet in London that they would have the 
Germans whipped in three months. Bull-dozing John Bull will not get Ger- 
many whipped in three years unless he can get more help. He will have to 
give the up the job like he did the Dardanelles. The day John Bull drops 
out of the war this carnage will end. 

If you are convinced that the Servians and Russia were determined on 
war from the first you can skip this further discussion of Servia and Russia 
up to the subject: France Was to Back Up Russia in the Bloody Game for 
War. 

The Servians would confess their sins against Austria and then go 
commit worse sins against her. They made no effort to molest those who 
plotted that assassination; they celebrated it. Austria sent an ultimatum to 
Servia and Russia gave Austria to understand that Servia shall not be pun- 
ished for that Assassination. So Servia made no effort to harm the plotters 
of that murder. Because Russia was backing them up. As the Servians had 
boasted in 1913, "we have Russia back of us and will begin in Bosnia," Austria, 
and set Europe afire. That assassination was simply carrying out their 
threat, and Russia, that is always committing wholesale murder and assassina- 
tion, would not allow Servia to be punished. One murderer defending an- 
other. 

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Russia Was Determined to Have War 

Russia, that is always committing assassination by the wholesale, on 
July 24th said Servia shall not be humiliated. The next day, the 25th, before 
any other country had mobilized, Russia decided on partial mobilization. This 
is shown by the note to Germany, July 30th, stating that the "miUtary meas- 
ures now coming into operation were decided upon 5 days ago." The next 
day, 26th, two days before Austria declared war on Servia, Russia stated in 
a telegram to Italy that the conflict cannot be localized, that is between 
Austria and Servia (see Russian Orange Book, Manchester Guardian, Sep- 
tember 10, 1914). Russia said the conflict, war cannot be localized. Austria 
had not yet declared war on Servia and had only begun to mobilize the day 
that Russia telegraphed to Italy that the conflict cannot be localized. Russia 
was backing up Servia and she knew that would bring war between Austria 
and Servia, and Russia was determined to get into it. That is why Russia 
said two days before there was war that the conflict, war cannot be localized. 

The Czar's Actions Made it Plain that He Intended to Fight 

Germany 

On July 26th the German Ambassador in St. Petersburg handed a note 
to the Russian Government declaring that "Preparatory military measures 
on the part of Russia will compel us to take similar measures, which must 
consist in the mobilization of the army. But mobilization means war." 
That day Russia sent the telegram that the conflict, war cannot be localized, 
that is between Austria and Servia, what would you say about a man that 
had a quarrel with another and began drawing his gun and then says this can 
be arbitrated at the Hague, but he keeps right on drawing his gun? That 
is the way Russia acted about Austria. Began mobilizing first, and kept it 
up after Germany had warned the Czar that it meant war. If Russia had 
not backed up Servia there would have been no war. The Serbs were tell- 
ing the truth in 1913 when they said, "we have Russia back of us and will 
begin in Bosnia," Austria, and set Europe afire. They have certainly made 
good that threat. The Servians were the worst offenders in the atrocities 
which followed the Balkan war on Turkey. 

The Czar by giving an order for absolute and general mobilization on 
July 30th, after Germany had warned him that mobilization in Russia would 
mean war with Germany, made it plain that Russia intended to fight Germany. 
Because he could not fight Austria without fighting Austria's ally, Germany. 
Barbarous Russia went to war to keep the plotters of that murder from 
getting what they deserved and to break up Austria and to eventually get a 
southern sea outlet. 

The Assassination That Started the Fracas 

"On June 28th, 19 14, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Aus- 
trian Emperor, and his Consort, were murdered at the City of Sarejevo, the 
capital of Bosnia. The incidents connected with the crime were most start- 
ling. Three different attempts were made on the part of the assassins, at 
separate places, within a short period of time. The murder was seemingly 

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anticipated in several cities — notably London, Belgrade, St. Petersburg, and 
Rome. 

Faced with this terrible loss, the Austrian Emperor directed that a 
secret inquiry should be begun into the plot which had led to the mur- 
der. The conclusions arrived at at that inquiry have thus been set forth 
by the Austrian Government: '(i) The plan to murder the Archduke dur- 
ing his stay in Sarajevo was conceived in Belgrade by Gabrilo Princip, Ne- 
deljko, Gabrinowic, and a certain Milan Ciganowic and Trifko Grabez, with 
the aid of Major Voja Tankosic. (2) The six bombs and four Browning 
pistols which were used by the criminals were obtained by Milan Ciganowic 
and Major Tankosic, and presented to Princip Gabrinowic in Belgrade. (3) 
The bombs are hand grenades, manufactured at the arsenal of the Servian 
Army in Kragujevac. (4) To insure the success of the assassination, Milan 
Ciganowic instructed Princip Gabrinowic in the use of grenades and gave 
instructions in shooting with Browning pistols to Princip Grabez in a forest 
near the target practice field of Topshider (outside Belgrade). (5) In order 
to enable the crossing of the frontier of Bosnia by Princip Gabrinowic and 
Grabez, and the smuggling of their arms, a secret system of transportation 
was organized by Ciganowic, The entry of the criminals with their arms into 
Bosnia and Herzegovina was affected by the frontier captains of Shabatz and 
Loznica, with the aid of several other person.' ('Why We Are At War,' pp. 
148-149.) It has been complained against the Austrian Government that the 
evidence on which these findings were founded was not published. (The For- 
eign Office has now disclosed that the evidence was received by Britain on the 
7th of August.) That complaint is open to four observations: (i) The 
Austrian Government might not have desired to reveal the full ramifications 
of the conspiracy, until it was known who had inspired it, because the above 
findings were only directed against the agents of the conspiracy as dis- 
tinguished from its authors. (2) It is not the practice in Austria-Hun- 
gary, and in that respect Austria is like many other Continental coun- 
tries, to conduct preliminary inquiries into political crimes in public. (3) 
Austria was much aggrieved by the crime. The pride of the Hapsburgs is 
notorious; and this was an occasion when any comment on their actions 
would be regarded as an affront. (4) Servia maintained all the while a 
position of masterly inactivity. 

The murder took place on the 28th of June, but it was not until July 
23rd that Austria presented a stiff ultimatum demanding certain repara- 
tion from Servia. The Austrian Ambassador in London offered some ex- 
planation of the strong terms of that ultimatum in these remarks, as recorded 
by Sir E. Grey : 'Count MensdorfT said that if Servia, in the interval that had 
elapsed since the murder of the Archduke, had voluntarily instituted an in- 
quiry on her own territory, all this might have been avoided.' ('Great Britain 
and the European Crisis,' Document 3, p. 2.) As a matter of fact, Servia 
had done nothing, conduct which led the Kaiser to telegraph with some jus- 
tifiable asperity to the Czar: 'The spirit which made the Servians murder 
their own King and his Consort still dominates that country.' ('Why We Are 
at War,' p. 170.) It is fair to remember, too, that the real criminals in con- 
nection with the Archduke's assassination have not been brought to justice 
yet. 

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The Austrian ultimatum created some indignation in Russia; and it is 
at this point that the sinister designs of Russia begin to appear. Servia ap- 
pealed to the Czar for his protection, in the meantime presenting a concilita- 
tory reply to the Austrian Government. It is probable that the reply would 
have been accepted by Austria, had not the Servian Government so often 
broken its pledges, given in 1909, to live 'in neighborly and friendly relations' 
with Austria. 

The vital point of the Austrian ultimatum, namely, that Austrian officers 
should watch the inquiry to be held by Servia so as to see that it was a 
genuine one, was rejected by Servia as an interference with her integrity as 
a sovereign state. A deadlock was thus reached, as Austria was unwilling to 
forego this demand and submit her case to an international tribunal, where 
Servia, whom she was accusing of carrying on a murderous propaganda, 
would have presented herself as an equal of Austria. The attitude of Austria 
was, undoubtedly, a harsh and unbending one in the beginning; but, before 
condemning Austria too severely, Britons should ask themselves this question : 
Supposing the Prince of Wales had been murdered in Germany, and the in- 
quiry showed a connection of German officials with the murderers, that know- 
ing this the German Government did nothing, would the statesmen of Britain 
have submitted such a matter to the Hague Tribunal? It may be that they 
ought to have done so in a democratic community; but does any reasonable 
man think that the Government would have taken such a course? The 
British Ambassador at Vienna thus diagnosed public feeling in Austria in his 
despatch on the rupture of diplomatic relations: 'The demeanor of the people 
at Vienna showed plainly the popularity of the idea of war with Servia, and 
there can be no doubt that the small body of Austrian and Hungarian states- 
men by whom this momentous step was adopted rightly gauged the sense of 
the people. . . . The country certainly believed that it had before it only the 
alternative of subduing Servia or of submitting sooner or later to mutilation at 
her hands.' ('Great Britain and the European Crisis,' p. 115.) On July 23rd, 
the British Ambassador at Rome reported: 'Secretary-General took the view 
that the gravity of the situation lay in the conviction of the Austro-Hun- 
garian Government that it was absolutely necessary for their prestige, after 
many disillusions in the Balkans, to score a definite success.' ('Great Britain 
and the Euroepan Crisis,' Document 38, p. 30.) The Austrian Government, 
under pressure from the Russian and German Governments, declared its in- 
tention of not seeking any territorial compensation at the expense of Servia. 
Then, on 26th of July, the German Ambassador at St. Petersburg wired to 
the German Chancellor: 'The Austro-Hungarian Ambassador had an ex- 
tended interview with Sazonoff this afternoon. Both parties had a satis- 
factory impression, as they told me afterward. The assurance of the Am- 
bassador that Austria-Hungary had no idea of conquest, but wished to obtain 
peace at last at her frontiers, greatly pacified the Secretary.' ('Why We Are 
At War,' p. 164.) ('Great Britain and the European Crisis,' p. 116.) Here 
must be inserted two telegrams which tell most heavily against the good 
faith of Russia. On July 26th, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs sent 
this extraordinary telegram to the Russian Ambassador at Rome : 'Italy could 
play an all-important role in the preservation of peace if she could use 
her influence in Austria and bind herself to a neutral attitude in the con- 

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flict, since it cannot remain localized. It would be desirable for you to say 
that it is impossible for Russia not to give help to Servia.' (Russian Orange 
Book, Manchester Guardian, September lo, 1910.) What could that mean 
but that Russia had decided to kindle a general conflagration? Austria had 
pledged her honor not to take Servian territory. If she broke her word, 
then would have been the moment for Russia to call Austria to account. 
That Russia and Servia were playing a dubious game is confirmed by this 
frank admission of the Czar, on the 30th of July. 'The military measures 
now taking form were decided upon five days ago, and for the reason of 
defence against the preparations of Austria.' Russia had decided on mobiliza- 
tion on the 25th of July — three days before Austria had declared war on 
Servia ! What reason of defence was there in this act ? As the Kaiser tele- 
graphed on the 31st of July to the Czar: 'Nobody threatens the honor and 
power of Russia, which could well have waited for the result of mediation.' 
('Why We Are at War,' p. 139.) The Russian mobilization was grossly 
provocative, and was a primal cause of the catastrophe which has befallen 
Europe; because that mobilization terrified the German Government, which 
could not understand the motive of Russia in shielding Servia from the 
wrath of Austria, in the .peculiar circumstances surrounding the murder at 
Sarajevo. The counsel Germany could tender to Austria was weakened by 
the fact that the intervention of Germany against Austria in 1913, which 
averted war, had not improved the relations between Austria and Servia, but 
had produced the assassination; as Servia imagined, with some justice as 
events turned out, that the politics of assassination were not viewed unfa- 
vorably in Russia. It was not until the ist of August, as the British Ambas- 
sador at Vienna states, that Austria replied to the Russian move. 'General, 
mobilizaion of army and fleet,' is the laconic message. On the same date 
it is noted by Sir E. Grey: 'The Austro-Hungarian Ambassador declared the 
rediness of his Government to discuss the substance of the Austrian ultimatum 
to Servia.' ('Great Britain and the European Crisis,' p. 98.) But the Rus- 
sian mobilization did not cease. Germany asked that it sould be stopped; 
and no answer was returned. The German representatives were telegraphing 
that France and Russia were pressing on with their mobilization; and Sir E. 
Grey had already informed the Austrian Ambassador that the British Fleet 
would be kept together, as the situation was difficult. ('Great Britain and 
the European Crisis,' p. 43.) It is known now that transports were being col- 
lected together in the mouth of the Thames on the 31st of July. Faced with 
this crisis, Germany lost her nerve, and mobilized her forces late on the 
31st of July. On the same date, the German Ambassador in Paris was in- 
structed: 'Please ask French Government whether it intends to remain neu- 
tral in a Russo-German War.' ('Why We Are At War,' p. 173.) He an- 
swered on 1st August: 'Upon my repeated definite inquiry whether France 
would remain neutral in the event of a Russo-German war, the Prime Minis- 
ter declared that France would do that which her interests dictated.' (Ibid., 
p. I74-) 

24th of July. The Russian Ambassador at Vienna says that Russia 
will not allow Austria to humiliate Servia. (White Paper 7.) Germany takes 
the view that considering all the circumstances Austria ought to be allowed 
to settle her quarrel with Servia and put an end to the Servian plots and 

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provocations (White Paper 9); Servia puts herself under the protection of 
Russia by a telegram sent to the Czar by the Crown Prince (Russian Orange 
Book 6), and also appeals to Britain to get Austria to modify the Note; the 
Russian Foreign Minister has an interview with the representatives of the 
British and the French (Governments in St. Petersburg (White Paper 6), 
and he with the French representative urges the British representative to 
press his Government to fulfill the obligations of the Triple Entente and to 
'proclaim their solidarity with France and Russia.' [This is of the greatest 
importance as showing that Russia had no anxiety about negotiations, but was 
looking to war, and it must be noted that at the interview the Russian For- 
eign Minister said that 'Russian mobilization would at any rate have to be 
carried out,' and the French Ambassador gave ours to understand that 'France 
would fulfill all the obligations entailed by her alliance with Russia if neces- 
sity arose.'] The German official publication (Document 4), states that the 
Russian Foreign Minister told the German Ambassador that Russia would 
not allow the dispute to be settled between Austria and Servia alone. Rus- 
sia made up her mind that it is not to be localized. The German Ambassador 
in Paris said that the quarrel miist be localized. (Orange Book 8.) His 
words were: 'The German Government desires urgently the localization of 
the dispute because every interference of another Power would, owing to the 
natural play of alliance, be followed by incalculable consequences.' (French 
Book 28.) 

Thus the game opened, and no one who studies all the papers can doubt 
for a moment but that Russia from the first day moved for war." — From 
"England on the Witness Stand." • 

There Was no Military Action by Germany to Provoke Russian' 

Mobilization 

The falsity of the Russian general mobilization by means of the German 
measures is fully exposed by the fact that the French Yellow Book confirms 
the fact (No. 102), that the Russian Chief of the General Staff on July 29th 
gave his word of honor to the German Attache that the military measures of 
Russia were directed exclusively against Austria-Hungary and not against 
Germany also. If Russia believed it knew of military measures taken by 
Germany, would the Russian Chief of the General Staff then have had any 
occasion to give such a word of honor? And if information had belatedly 
been received by the Russian Government concerning threatening German 
military preparations— as M. Sazonoff, to be sure, asserted to the French and 
English Ambassadors, but never to the German Ambassador — would not the 
Russian Chief of the General Staff then have had the most urgent occasion, 
because of the word of honor that he had given, to speak to the German 
Military Attache about the changed situation presented as a result of such 
information, and to do this, too, before the irremediable step of general 
Russian mobilization had been taken ? Nothing of all this happened. Russia 
has justified its general mobilization only to third powers, by the alleged 
German measures; but to the Kaiser, the German Ambassador, and the Ger- 
man Military Attache, however, it never uttered a word of inquiry, much 
less of complaint against the alleged German preparations, but rather gave 
calming assurances constantly. .^ 

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Why the Proposed Mediation Failed 

"The proposal of mediation made by Sir Edward Grey on July 29th sug- 
gested: Austria-Hungary should undertake, after the occupation of Belgrade 
and the Servian territory at the border, not to advance further, while the 
powers would try to bring it about that Servia should give to Austria-Hun- 
gary a satisfaction adequate for that monarchy. The territory occupied by 
the Austro-Hungarian Army should be evacuated again after the satisfaction 
had been rendered. Sir Edward Grey conveyed this proposal on July 30th 
to the English Ambassador at St. Petersburg, and added: 

I suggested this yesterday as a possible relief to the situation, and if 
it can be obtained I would earnestly hope that it might be agreed to suspend 
further military preparations on all sides. ('Blue Book,' No. 103.) 

This proposal was transmitted and recommended by Germany to the 
Austro-Hungarian Government; similarly by the English and French Am- 
bassadors to the Russian Government (Yellow Book, No. 112). The pro- 
posal was not yet answered by Austria, and Russia, too, had not yet taken 
any attitude concerning it, when the general Russian mobilization ensued. 
The assertion that the Russian general mobilization had been made necessary 
because Austria-Hungary declined all intervention by the powers (Blue 
Book, No. 113), is thus in strict contradiction to the state of affairs as 
pictured in the English and French documents." — From "Germany's Case in 
the Supreme Court of Civilization." 

The day after Sir Edward Grey made this proposal of mediation by a 
conference of the powers, he threatened to resign unless England backed up 
France and Russia in war on Germany. His proposal of mediation was a 
sham. He did not make public that he threatened to resign unless he got 
war. "This sinister liar, Grey," "Presently they will send him to the gal- 
lows," is what a famous professor in Oxford University, Dr. F. C. Cony- 
beare, wrote to a friend here in America. His letter is published in "Eng- 
land on the Witness Stand," of the Fatherland, New York, 15 cents. 

Austria Offers to Settle Peaceably 

30th of July. Austria suddenly becomes reasonable (White Paper 112, 
and other scattered references), owing to German pressure and is willing to 
resume conversations in St. Petersburg. (Sir Maurice Bunsen's special dis- 
patch, Cd. 7596.) But Russia blocks the way. The Kaiser appeals to the 
Czar to stop the menace of mobilization under the happier prospects (German 
Book 23), and King George is also asked to intervene. The pacifists for the 
moment are in the ascendant. But Russia's action defeats them. On the 
morning of this day she agrees to stop all military preparations if Austria 
will promise not to violate Servian sovereignty (White Paper 97), and this is 
telegraphed to Berlin. (Orange Book 60.) Without waiting for a reply, 
Russia orders what amounts to an "absolute and general" {Times and Daily 
Chronicle correspondents) mobilization in the evening. 

31st of July. Russia and Austria are coming apparently to a settlement 
(Cd. 7596), and conversations are in progress. "Austria gives assurances that 
she does not desire to infringe the sovereign rights of Servia and so accepts 
Russia's condition of peace." (White Paper 137.) — From "England on the 
Witness Stand." 

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While Germany was working for a peaceable settlement and Austria 
had offered to treat with Russia, the Czar kept lively gathering his war- 
dogs and his navy. Finally Germany sent notice that war preparations had 
to stop in twelve hours, but Russia got busier than ever in spite of Austria's 
offer for a peaceable settlement. Russia did not work for peace, but the 
Kaiser did, as the correspondence farther on proves. 

Professor Sanborn says : ''It is perfectly plain that Servia would never 
have ventured to the extreme of plotting the cold-blooded assassination of the 
Crown Prince of a powerful neighboring state, nor, furthermore, have ex- 
pressed her jubilation, semi-officially, at the accomplishment of the dastardly 
deed, if she had not had perfect confidence and assurance that Russia would 
willingly set her seal of approval, as she has since done, upon the most 
drastic action she might venture to take against the Hapsburg monarchy. 
No European nation could do less than Austria has done in this crisis and still 
keep its dignity and the respect of its neighbors, without which the life of the 
Monarchy would be indeed in jeopardy. Patience with Slavic intrigue and 
perfidy had truly ceased to be a virtue, and if the ultimatum to Servia was 
vigorously worded, it is perhaps hardly unfair to say that it was suited to 
the treacherous people to whom it was sent. Anybody familiar with the 
perfidy and the atrocities of the Balkan States in their two recent wars or 
with their bestial murder of their own King and Queen can certainly realize 
that we have to do here with races living on the plane of semi-savagery — 
a people impervious to reason, who are sure to interpret moderation as 
timidity, who can be taught to feel but not to reflect." 

The Servians were the worst offenders in those atrocities, which followed 
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CHAPTER XXI 11. 

REVENGEFUL FRANCE 

France Was to Back Up Russia in the Bloody Game of War 

You can see how noble and heroic the Frenchmen are if you read 
the account of the scores of women who lost their lives in the fire 
at the Charity Bazar in Paris in 1897. It was written at the time by 
an American woman who married a foreign diplomat, and is from 
her, "The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life" (by L. DeHegermann- 
Lindencrone), published 1914 by Harper & Brothers. This lady 
promised to attend the bazar, but her dressmaker failed to send home 
her dress in time. "How I blessed the offending dressmaker after- 
ward. The bazar was in a vacant lot inclosed by the walls of sur- 
rounding houses, from which the only exit was through the room 
where a cinematograph had been put up. This, being worked by a 
careless operator, took fire. The interior of the bazar consisted of 
canvass walls, of w^hich one part represented a street called Vieux 
Paris. 

The bazar was crowded ; the stalls were presided over by the 
most fashionable ladies of Paris, and there were many gentlemen in 
the crowd of buyers. When fire broke out, a gentleman whose wife 
was one of the stall-holders, stood up near the door and cried out, 
'Mesdames, n'ayez pas peur. II n'y a pas de danger' (ladies, don't fear; 
there is no danger), and quietly went out, leaving people to their fates. 
Then came the panic. Young ladies were trampled to death by 
their dancing partners of the evening before. One of them was 
engaged to be married, and when her fiance walked over her body, 
in his frenzy to escape, she cried to him, 'Sauvez moi, pour I'amour 
de Dieu !' (Save me, for the love of God!) He screamed back, 
'Tout le monde pour soi' (all the world is for himself), and disap- 
peared. 

She was saved by a stable-boy from the stables opposite. She 
was horribly burned, but probably will live, though disfigured for life. 
Under the wooden floor were thrown the debris — tar, shavings, paper, 
etc. This burned quickly, and the floor fell in, engulfing those who 
could not escape ; the tarred roof and the canvas walls fell on them. 
What an awful death ! The kitchen of a small hotel, which formed 
of a vacant lot, had one window about four feet from the ground. 
This was covered with stout iron bars. The cook, when he realized 
the disaster, managed to break the bars and, pushing out a chair, 
was able to drag a great many women through the window. He 
and the stable-boy were the only persons who seemed to have done 
anything toward helping. 

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Of course around the uprooted and demolished turnstile was the 
greatest number of victims, but masses were found heaped together 
before the canvas representing the street of Vieux Paris. The poor 
things in their agony imagined that it really was a street. It was 
all over in an hour. It seems almost incredible that such a tragedy 
could have taken place in so short a time^ And to think that the 
whole catastrophe could have been averted by the expenditure of a 
few francs! When the architect heard that there was to be a cine- 
matograph put up, he pointed out the danger and begged that some 
firemen should be engaged. The president of the committee asked 
how much this would cost and, on being told twenty francs for each 
fireman, replied, T think we will do without them.' 

The Duchesse d'Alecon and the wife and daughters of the Danish 
Consul-General were among the victims. The dead were all taken 
to the Palais de' ITndustrie and laid out in rows. Through the whole 
night people searched with lanterns among the dead for their loved 
ones. It was remarked that there was not one man found among the 
burned. Not one man in all Paris acknowledged that he had been 
to the Bazar. Within an incredibly short time subscriptions amount- 
ing to over a million francs were collected. But no one could be 
found except the cook and the stable-boy who had done anything to 
merit a reward." 

Not one of these noble, heroic Frenchmen who left their hats 
and canes behind would admit that he had walked over those women 
to save himself and left them to burn — not one of them would admit 
that he had been there. Yet, these are the same grand, noble, heroic 
Frenchmen that Edmond Rostand writes to the American sapheads 
about and lauds them to the sky as so honorable. You remember 
when the French ocean steamer went down a few years ago that 
these heroic Frenchmen bravely saved themselves and let the pas- 
sengers and women go down. Of all nations the polite French have 
had the least use for Americans except to get their money. Next 
come the British cattle that call us "idiotic Yankees." France is a 
republic, but gives titles; very different from the American idea that 
one man is as good as another. 

The fine and polite French brought African colored fighters into 
France and put them to guard the poor German women that were in 
France when the war broke out and leave those defenseless German 
women to the passions of the African colored troops. . When the 
French were the military nation of Europe they went over in Ger- 
many and fought Germany for thirty years at one stretch, reducing 
the German population from twenty millions to six millions. The 
fine, polite French are the same malignant, revengeful people that 
they always have been. 

Any American who wishes to really see what the French tem- 
perament is should read the true historical novel, ''The Light That 
Lures," by Percy J. Brebner, published by H. K. Fly & Co., New 
York. 

The Czar would not have gathered up his brutes and massed 

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them near Germany's frontier if he did not intend to start something. 
The Czar would have stopped and waited as Germany asked him 
and see if the trouble could not be settled peaceably, but he was de- 
termined to have war. The state papers between Russia and Ger- 
many are inserted farther on so you can see how the Czar acted 
about it. The Czar was determined on war and France was to back 
him up in the bloody game. No one but a fool would imagine that 
Russia would butt into war with Germany and Austria-Hungary 
without wanting more help than Servia. No one denies that France 
and Russia had formed an alliance against Germany. In 1913 the 
French Government loaned Russia $400,000,000 to build strategic 
railroads, and one that was of no particular use except to get toward 
Germany to concentrate troops there. As a Paris journal stated it, 
France loaned this 400 millions to Russia on condition that Russia 
"should render fuller service to the alliance and should take a firmer 
attitude toward Germany." 

On July 30th France acted with Russia, and the French Am- 
bassador reminded Grey of the military understanding, and the letter 
the Cabinet gave him in 1912 and the French representative made it 
plain that if Germany demanded France's neutrality in case of war 
with Rusia, France would not agree to it. 

At the request of the Czar, the Kaiser attempted to mediate be- 
tween Austro-Hungary and Servia. John W. Burgess, of Columbia 
University, said : "The Emperor undertook the task. But while in 
the midst of it he learned that Russia was mobilizing troops upon his 
own border. He immediately demanded of Russia that this should 
cease, but without avail or even reply. He protested again with like 
result. Finally, at midnight on the 31st of July, his Ambassador at 
St. Petersburg, laid the demand before the Russian Minister of For- 
eign Affairs that the Russian mobilization must cease within twelve 
hours, otherwise Germany would be obliged to mobilize. At the 
same time the Emperor directed his Ambassador in Paris to inquire 
of the French Government whether, in case of war between Germany 
and Russia, France would remain neutral? The time given expired 
without any explanation or reply from Russia and without any guar- 
antee or assurance from France. The Federal Council of the German 
Empire, consisting of representatives from the twenty-five States and 
the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine, then authorized the decla- 
ration of war against Russia, which declaration applied, according to 
the sound principle of international jurisprudence, to all her allies 
refusing to give guarantee of their neutrality." 

King Ludwig said : "Yes, we knew it was coming. Last winter 
(1913-14) the great debates were going on in the French Parliament 
over the question of changing the term of military service from two 
years to three years. Could we not understand that? The extra year 
would increase the annual strength of the French army fully 50 per 
cent. It was ominous. Then we knew that Russia had 900,000 men 
under arms whose term of service had expired and who had every 

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right to return to their homes. Why were they not sent? Yes, we 
knew it was coming." 

In Paris the French Murdered Germans Before War Was Declared 

Henry M. Ziegler, a millionaire of Cincinnati, was in Paris and 
said: "It will never be known how many Germans were killed in 
Paris during the three-day riot of July 30, 31 and August 1. The 
crimes of that period, could they but become known, would shame 
the civilized world." Then he told what he saw. Max Vieweger 
asks what sort of neutrality is it that ignores the throwing of bombs 
on the city of Nuremburg by French aviators prior to the outbreak 
of war. 

The London Times says that it must be remembered that the 
majority of the American people have only the haziest idea of the 
menaces of European politics. The American people know about as 
much about European politics and diplomacy as a parrot does about 
algebra. People think that because Germany took Alsace-Lorraine 
from France in 1871, that France should have it back when Germany 
simply recovered what France had stolen from her. They are not 
posted in history farther enough back. 

Prior to 1870 there is more history of France and her 400 years' 
treatment of Germany contained in the letter of that famous his- 
torian, Thomas Carlyle, to the London Times than nine out of ten 
Americans know about France before the Franco-German war. 

HAS FRANCE A TITLE TO ALSACE-LORRAINE? 

Extracts of a Letter, by Thomas Carlyle to the London "Times" 
During the Franco- German War 

Chelsea, November 11th, 1870. 
To the Editor of the Times. 

Sir — "It is probably an amiable trait of human nature, this cheap 
pity and newspaper lamentation over fallen and afflicted France ; but 
it seems to me a very idle, dangerous and misguided feeling, as ap- 
plied to cession of Alsace-Lorraine by France to her German con- 
querors, and argues, on the part of England, a most profound ignor- 
ance as to the mutual history of France and Germany, and the conduct 
of France towards that country for long centuries back. The ques- 
tion for the Germans, in this crisis, is not one of 'magnanimity' of 
'heroic pity and forgiveness to a fallen foe,' but of solid prudence 
and practical consideration what the fallen foe will, in all likelihood, 
do when once on his feet again. Written on her memory in a dis- 
mally instructive manner, Germany has an experience of four hun- 
dred years on this point, of which on the English memory, if it ever 
was recorded there, there is now little or no trace visible." 

Carlyle's description of the wrongs committed by France upon 
Germany which follows in his letter provides timely and instructive 
reading. There we have a chain from Louis XI. to Napoleon III. of 
vile attacks, robberies and devastations. There are such links to the 

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chain as the machinations of Richelieu which successfully kept up a 
thirty years' war in Germany. 

''No French ruler, not even Napoleon I., was a feller or crueller 
enemy to Germany, or half so pernicious to it," says Carlyle; "and 
Germany had done him no injury that I know of except that of exist- 
ing beside him." 

Carlyle then continues: "No nation ever had so bad a neighbor 
as Germany has had in France for the last 400 years ; bad in all man- 
ner of ways ; insolent, repacious, insatiable, inappeasable, continually 
aggressive. 

"And now, furthermore, in all history there is no insolent, unjust 
neighbor that ever got to complete, instantaneous and ignominous a 
smashing down as France has now got from Germany. Germany, 
after 400 years of ill-usage and generally ill-fortune from that neigh- 
bor, has at last the great happiness to see its enemy fairly down in 
this manner; and Germany, I do clearly believe, would be a foolish 
nation not to think of raising up some secure boundary fence between 
herself and such a neighbor, now that she has the chance. 

"There is no law of nature that I know of, no Heaven's Act of 
Parliament, whereby France, alone of terrestrial beings, shall not 
restore any portion of her plundered goods when the owners they 
were wrenched from have an opportunity upon them. To nobody, 
except to France herself, for the moment, can it be credible that 
there is such a law of nature. Alsace and Lorraine were not got, 
either of them, in so divine a manner as to render that a probability. 
The cunning of Richelieu, the grandiose sword of Louis XIV. — 
these are the only titles of France to those German countries. Riche- 
lieu screwed them loose and Louis le Grand, with his Turenne as 
supreme of modern Generals managed the rest of the operation, 
except, indeed, I should say, the burning of the Palatinate, from 
Heidelberg Palace steadily downwards, into black ruin; which 
Turenne would not do sufficiently, and which Louis had to get done 
by another. There was also a good deal of extortionate law-practise, 
what we may fairly call violent sharp attorneyism, put in use. 

"Nay, as to Strassburg, it was not even attorneyism, much less a 
long-sword, that did the feat; it was a housebreaker's jimmy on the 
part of the Grand Monarque. Strassburg was got in time of profound 
peace by bribing of the magistrate to do treason, on his part, and admit 
his garrison on night. Nor as to Metz la Pucelle, nor any of these 
Three Bishoprics, was it force of war that brought them over to 
France; rather it was force of fraudulent pawnbroking. King Henry 
n. (year 1552) got these places — Protestants, applying to him in their 
extreme need — as we may say, in the way of pledge. Henri entered 
there with banners spread and drums beating, 'solely in defence of 
German liberty, as God shall witness,' did nothing for Protestantism 
or German liberty (German liberty managing rapidly to help itself 
in this instance) ; and then, like a brazen-faced, unjust pawnbroker, 
refused to give the places back — had ancient rights over them, ex- 
tremely indubitable to him, and could not give them back. And never 

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yet, by any pressure or persuasion, would. The great Charles V., 
Protestantism itself now supporting, endeavored, with his utmost 
energy and to the very cracking of his heart, to compel him, but 
could not. The present HohenzoUern King, a modest and pacific 
man in comparison, could and has. I believe it to be perfectly just, 
rational, and wise that Germany should take these countries home 
with her from her unexampled campaign, and, by well fortifying her 
own old Wasgau ('Vosges'), Hunderiick (Dog's back). Three Bish- 
oprics, and other military strengths, secure herself in time coming 
against French visits." — F. Borgmeister in The Fatherland. 

France deserved that smashing Germany gave her in 1871. There 
are a lot of French in Canada, so France ought to have Canada if she 
ought to have Alsace-Lorraine because of the French population- 
there. France had no"" just cause for war on Germany except that 
Russia was doing it, which is the devils own excuse. France, the 
thief, had to loosen her grip on what she had stolen from Germany 
and has thirsted for revenge ever since. France deserves to lose a 
good slice for backing up Russia in this war on Germany. 

The French repeatedly made war on this country with the In- 
dians and massacred our settlers in her attempt to take this country. 
Then she turned around and loaned us money to clean out the British. 
Because she did not want to see England hold it. During the Civil 
War the French stuck a king over Mexico, Uncle Sam soon shoo- 
flied him. The French have absolutely no use for the "Mericans," as 
they call us, except to get our money. Understand the real French 
temperament and spirit by reading the true historical novel : ''The 
Light That Lures," by Percy J. Brebner; published by H. K. Fly & 
Co., New York. 

'Tt (the German Empire) built the University at Strasburg, intro- 
duced compulsory education for stamping out the general illiteracy of 
the people in the annexed territory, established sanitary reforms 
therein, improving the housing of the residents of the towns and vil- 
lages and clearing away slums and the proletariat of which they were 
the haunts, taught the peasantry better methods of agriculture, and 
promoted new industries in the towns for the profit and welfare of 
their inhabitants. Anyone who knew by personal observation, as I 
did, the Alsace-Lorraine of 1871 and the Elsass-Lothringen of forty 
years later, could not help feeling astonishment and admiration for 
the vast improvement of the people in education, health, vigor, in- 
dustry, enterprise, and prosperity, within this period." — From "The 
European War of 1914," by Prof. Burgess. 

Any one who will really post-up about the history of Alsace-Lorraine 
will see that France has no title to it. Ernest- P. Horrwitz, formerly lecturer 
at Dublin University (Trinity College), and at Queens College, London, gave 
historical facts of "the warlike Swabes, one of the most powerful and pop- 
ulous German tribes about the time of Christ," which were published in 
N. Y. Globe, March 9, 1916. The farther back you go in the centuries, the 
more German it was. Any one who will read Mr. Horrwitz's article will get 
authentic facts that "Alsace and Lorraine have always been German to the 
core." 

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CHAPTER XXIV. 

GERMANY 

The French Have Captured Berlin Over Twenty Times — 
The Germans Have Captured Paris Only Twice 

Germany was the battleground of Europe for centuries until 
they united and became military so as to protect themselves. "In 
the centuries before German unity was accomplished, Berlin was 
more often in the hands of a foreign invader than any other capital 
in Europe. Bismarck calculated that the French had occupied Berlin 
over twenty times, while the German troops had been in Paris twice. 
Prussia and Brandenburg were two of the most invaded countries in 
Europe before the ring of bayonets was welded together. That is 
historical fact. On the other hand, Russia has a militarist propa- 
ganda of the most evil kind ; and the Dreyfus case demonstrated what 
form French militarism could assume. Nor is British navalism in- 
nocuous in its spirit ! Through that navalism, Britain has assailed 
nation after nation in Europe that has threatened her trade suprem- 
acy; and Germany, the latest comer, is being similarly handled. 'On 
the knee, you dog !' was a phrase that rang unpleasantly through 
England not long ago. The militarism of Lord Kitchener in Egypt 
and in India was as bad as anything one could want in that line. . . . 
Germany occupies the most unfortunate geographical position in 
Europe, encircled on all sides by great nations, and with an almost 
land-locked seaboard, which must be well guarded or it might be 
closed and her encircling complete. 

''Germany must secure one safe frontier and she must find some 
ally. To which country in many respects is she most closely allied 
by race and position? — to Austria. She allies to her. Is there any- 
thing unusually wicked about alliances — at least viewed from the 
standpoint of accepted diplomacy? But why with Austria? Have 
you ever heard of Russia? — She is our ally! Russia, the great over- 
powering, sinister, tyrannous, ever-growing Russia. Russia, the van- 
guard of the ever westward trend of races. Russia, with her theory 
of Pan-Slavism, sweeping on to the westward, bringing the Balkans 
northwest with her. Does not that justify some alliance and the 
keenest possible defence by Germany? Should we not defend our- 
selves if Russia was our immediate neighbor? 

"But more than this. France on the other side. France, which 
under Napoleon had stampeded through Europe, and brought the 
Franco-Prussian War upon herself by a generation of restlessness. 
Think of Germany's position. The menace of Russia and Pan-Slav- 

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ism on the one side and a revengeful France, Russia's ally, on the 
other. Would you not call Germany mad if she was not well de- 
fended?"— From ''England on the Witness Stand.'" 

That Book, "Germany and the Next War" 

Some imagine the German people lust for war because of 
von Bernhardi's book: ''Germany and the Next War." Though the 
Kaiser worked for peace, there are those who encouraged the dis- 
tribution of such literature last summer. Mr. Morel, of England, 
said : "A German Association comprising some v300 of the intellectual 
elite of Germany published last year (1913) a scathing onslaught 
upon Bernhardi, who himself complains in his preface that his book 
is necessary because his views are not shared by the mass of his 
countrymen." 

The German people hate militarism. The devilish idea that an 
army officer can strut around and look upon civilians as dogs, slaves. 
But German militarism was necessary to save Germany from the 
cutthroat nations around her. I am sorry that we did not have a 
navy as big as England's and a President like Hearst, that would not 
stand for that pirate, John Bull's, bulldozing our rights and con- 
fiscating our goods, and then we would have no trouble with Ger- 
many. 

In 1911 one of the London dispatches quoted "one of the 
wealthiest men in Berlin, closely associated with the Foreign Office 
and high in the Emperor's confidence" : "No matter where we seek to 
advance, we find England blocking our progress. It is a case of an 
irresistible force coming in contact with an immovable object, and 
the only possible result of- such a collision is chaos — that is, war." — 
From The Fatherland. 

Germany was a growing nation, yet she was not allowed to in- 
crease her domain like England or France or Russia or Japan. And 
General von Bernhardi, as a man of war, thought that Germany 
should expand as well as other nations. Understand that I condemn 
this lust for war, which is stronger in the assassins England, France 
and Russia, than in Germany. Their histories prove that. "Gen- 
eral, von Bernhardi saw how this world had been divided up since 
1870; how the French, with 39,000,000 inhabitants in the home coun- 
try and 207,000 square miles, had been adding an oversea empire of 
nearly 3,000,000 square miles and nearly 60,000,000 people; how 
England, having 45,000,000 population in the home country and 120,- 
000 square miles, had been adding 3,200,000 square miles with about 
95,000,000 people in the same period ; how Russia had taken nearly all 
of the continent of Asia north of the neutrality line drawn by the 
English-Russian treaty of 1907; how Japan had been doubling its 
territory in habitable and fertile country and gaining influence over 
twice as much in Manchuria, which it practically controls ; how even 
Belgium, of only 11,000 square miles and a home population of 7,500,- 
000, acquired the Congo, with 900,000 square miles and 9,000,000 
natives ; while Germany, with 208,000 square miles and a home popu- 

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lation of 7,500,000, acquired the Congo, with a population of 13,000,- 
000 people, almost all of which was tropical land unfit for coloniza- 
tion, half of it arid land unfit for production. I know the story of that 
struggle because I have stood in it. 

It is wrong to accuse Germany of coveting its neighbors' terri- 
tory, but in the lands newly acquired by Europeans she felt that she 
had not her due share. 

England Always Stood in the Way 

''When I was in England talking 'good understanding,' my friends 
used to say: 'Dear fellow, it's all very well, but then, with your fast 
increasing population, 66,000,000 where formerly only 40,000,000 
lived, you will overflow some day, and that is the day we are afraid 
of.' But when, in reply to this argument, Germans sought to get 
some share in the undivided part of the world, get some sphere of in- 
fluence, it was invariably England who stood in her way and invari- 
ably frustrated any attempt of Germany to better her position. This 
is the story of Morocco, which she played into the hands of the 
French, who have no need for expansion. This happened in Persia 
and Mesopotamia, where Germany looked only for a field of com- 
mercial endeavors, to permit Germany some slight advantage which 
the English were convinced she must have or flow over. 

This British attitude is best expressed in the words of a mem- 
ber of the House of Lords that he spoke to me in 1908 : 'It is a fixed 
policy of Great Britain, ever since the egregious blunder committed 
in returning the Ionian Islands, that she will never part with an 
island or harbor she has ever laid hands on.' 

There was a certain comfort in being at the head of Germany's 
Colonial office, due to the fact that none of her colonies was taken by 
force. While England was forcibly appropriating Egypt, shelling 
Alexandria, invading Persia with armed and fighting men and sub- 
jugating the two great Boer republics in a war which cost 250,000 
lives and $11,000,000,000; while France was slaughtering the harm- 
less and almost affectionate little Antananarivos in Madagascar and 
violently subjugating Tunis, Morocco, and Indo-China; while Russia 
was capturing Turkestan by means of bayonet and bullet, and having 
two great wars, those of 1878 and 1904 — while the nations now at war 
with us and charging us with inhumanity to man were doing these 
things and many more which I have not enumerated, Germany was 
making not one armed effort at expansion. 

Since 1870 German acquisition has been of three kinds. The first 
is represented by our African colonies, which were allotted to us by 
the Congo Conference ; the second is represented by our purchase of 
the Marian and Palan Islands, and the third is represented by Kiao- 
Chau and part of the French Congo, leased or ceded to us by agree- 
ment. We have been accused of provoking war by our maintenance 
of a large standing army. Germany has %>een the battle-ground of 
Europe for centuries when Bismarck saw that such an army would be 

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the only guarantee of peace." — From ''Germany and the War," by 
Dr. Bernhard Dernburg. 

General von Moltke says : *'If we had wanted to fight we had far 
better opportunities to do so hundreds of times. If the lust of war 
really had been on us, why did we not begin war during the Russo- 
Japanese conflict, when Russia was defenseless? Why not when 
England had her hands full with the Boers?" Now the lying papers 
here try to make out that the Kaiser and the German people lusted for 
war and conquest. The assassins were coming at them, that is why 
they went to war. Over two years ago (1914) Congressman Metz 
said, "that in Germany he was told that Russia, France and England 
were intending to make war on Germany." 

The Most Cussed Man in the World— Is This the Part of a 

War Lord? 

"The Emperor had some ground for hoping that Britain would 
remain neutral, as he had prevented a European coalition against 
Britain in 1900-1901 to compel Britain to give terms to the Boers. 
The Kaiser, in 1908, had allowed an interview to be published in 
The Daily Telegraph, which was summarized in the Annual Register. 
'He (the Emperor William) had proved his friendship for England 
by refusing to receive the Boer delegates at Berlin, while the Euro- 
pean peoples had received and feted them ; by refusing the invitation 
of France and Russia to join with them in calling upon England to 
put an end to the Boer War; and by sending to Windsor a plan of 
campaign against the Boers in December, 1899, drawn up by him- 
self, and submitted to his general stafif for criticism, which ran very 
much on the same lines as that which was adopted by Lord Roberts.'' 
Neither the French nor Russian Governments ventured to contradict 
this account, which was amplified in the debates in the Reichstag. 

*Tn 1912 the first Balkan War broke out, in which Turkey was 
severely handled by a combination of Bulgaria, Greece, Servia, and 
Montenegro. On May 26th, 1913, peace was concluded between Tur- 
key and the allied combination. On June 30th, Bulgaria was at- 
tacked by Greece, Servia, and Roumania, and had to surrender much 
of what she had won. This internecine conflict led to much bitter- 
ness between the Balkan States. The Austrian Government exhib- 
ited some anxiety at the territorial accessions secured by Servia in 
these two wars, especially as the Pan-Serb agitation in Bosnia had 
become very active. A threatening tone was adopted by the Aus- 
trian Government and press toward the Servian Government, an 
attitude which much irritated the Russian Government. What en- 
sued is. well summarized in the Annual Register for 1913: Tn foreign 
politics the greatest achievement of Germany this year was the pre- 
vention of a European war, which would in all probability have broken 
out if the Emperor William had not plainly declared on the one 
hand to Austria-Hungary that he would not support her should she 
become involved in a war with Russia as the consequence of an attack 
by her upon Servia, and on the other to Russia that if she attacked 

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Austria-Hungary, notwithstanding her abstinence from active inter- 
vention in the Balkans, he would fight by the side of his Austrian 
ally.' That stand was effective, and the crisis of 1913 was safely 
passed." — From "England on the Witness Stand." 

This Is Not a Kaiser's War 

Many people have an idea that the Kaiser is a war fiend, when 
this is the only war he ever had. ''Germany alone among the big na- 
tions of the world has kept the peace for 44 years. And for 26 years of 
these 44 years the so-called war lord has been Emperor of Germany." 
He cannot declare war without the consent of the Bundesrath where 
he controls only 21 of the 61 votes. Yet some newspapers say, the 
Kaiser waved his sword and the German people would do whatever 
he said, rushed into war. The papers know they are lying when they 
publish such a statement. 

A New York City Lawyer Says German Emperor Was Forced . 

Into Action 

Mr. Liston Lewis, a lawyer of this city, said: "We reached 
Berlin on July 29," he said. "There were stirring scenes there then. 
The enthusiasm of the people was deep. They were firm in the con- 
viction that England, France and Russia were determined to make an 
aggressive war on Germany.'" 

James Creelman's Last Work Was His Interview with von 

Bethmann-Hollweg 

James Creelman, the foremost war correspondent in the world, 
died suddenly in Berlin on Lincoln's birthday, 1915. His last work 
was the interview with the German Imperial Chancellor, von Beth- 
mann-Hollweg, on the war and was published in the New York 
American, March 7, 1915. The Chancellor said: "England stands 
responsible before the whole world and must so stand in all human 
history. It is true that the support given by Russia to Servia in her 
criminal attacks and propaganda against Austria to furnish the first 
incentive to a breach of the peace of Europe. But when the decisive 
time came it was in England's power to say whether there should be 
a general European conflict or not. Had England served notice upon 
France and Russia that she would not support them in making a 
general European conflict out of the quarrel between Austria and 
Serbia, there would have been no world war. At that time the ques- 
tion of peace was entirely in the hands of England. . . . Their crime 
against the world was that they actually had it in their power to say 
whether there should be a world war or not, and with that oppor- 
tunity in their hands they deliberately supported France and Russia 
and made absolute certainty of the' greatest disaster in the history of 
the world." 

England fought Russia to keep her from boosting the Turk out 
of Europe and getting possession of Constantinople and now the 

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very fact that England was willing that Russia should have Con- 
stantinople shows how anxious she is to crush Germany and that 
Russia is her super. Mr. Creelman's death is a great loss to the 
newspaper world. He represented the New York American in Berlin 
and this interview is a lengthy one. But I know educated men with 
brains who are so unfair that they will not even read the German side 
of the inception of this carnage. 

Creelman's Picture of Kaiser Praised 

ITS ACCURACY AND GREAT FORCE NOTED BY ANOTHER 
EMINENT WAR WRITER RECENTLY IN BERLIN 

To the Editor of The American: 

Sir: Your posthumous publication of the late James Creelman's 
exclusive interview with the German Chancellor, von Bethmann- 
HoUweg, interested me peculiarly. This was not only because I had 
the good fortune of rubbing elbows with Mr. Creelman in much of 
his brilliant journalistic work in the Far East, Cuba, Mexico and 
Germany, but also because I have met and observed at first hand 
the two men so vividly depicted in his last interview — Emperor Will- 
iam and Chancellor von Bethmann-HoUweg. 

Creelman's description of the personal traits of the German 
Chancellor, as revealed in the last crowning piece of work of this 
gifted war correspondent, is the most vivid word picture of von 
Bethmann-Hollweg that has yet come to light. Similarly, Bethmann- 
Hollweg's word picture of Emperor William's looks and bearing, as 
described by him to Creelman, comes the nearest to my own im- 
pressions of the Kaiser, as seen by me recently in Berlin and at the 
Western front, in Flanders. Judge of my amazement, then, when I 
read a long editorial arraignment in the New York Times, immediately 
following your publication of the Creelman interview, in which the 
Times holds up to scorn this latest description of the Kaiser given to 
us by Bethmann-Hollweg through Creelman. The Times' s ironical 
comment on Creelman's and Bethmann-Hollwegg's characterizations 
of the Kaiser as a ruler, who through the greater part of his life 
labored earnestly for peace, begins as follows : 

'Tt is an impressive delineation, but it suggests the thought that 
if in this interview Von Bethman-Hollweg told the truth, the whole 
truth and nothing but the truth about William II., then the world 
should begin at once to redraw the portraits of its great historic per- 
sonages." 

Thereupon the Times compares Emperor William with Genghis 
Khan, Attila, Alexander the Great and Napoleon, suggesting sarcas- 
tically that these conquerors of old, perhaps, ought to be called men 
of peace. Since James Creelman is not alive to defend his last work, 
and since I happen to have been in a position to know its sincerity 
and convincing truthfulness, allow me, as Creelman's friend, to take 
up the cudgels on his behalf in one or two points. 

One striking historical difference between Genghis Khan, Attila, 

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Alexander the Great and Napoleon, as compared to Emperor William, 

is that each one of those olden time conquerors began his career of 

conquest at an extremely early age— in the first years of manhood — 

whereas the present German Kaiser, despite constant temptations to 

get into war, did not allow himself to be drawn into actual conflict 

until he was a grandfather, with grizzled hair. Had the Kaiser been 

a man of peace, says the Times, he would have stopped Austria from 

|>^aking war on Serbia after Princip's assassination of the Austrian 

.jjieir to the throne and of his wife, the Archduchess. 

V From what I know at first hand of Austrian-Hungarian feeling 

■ on this subject I submit that it would have been just about as easy for 

the Kaiser to stop Austria from going to war with Serbia after the 

bloody affair as it would have been to stop the American people from 

going to war with Spain after the blowing up of the Maine. 

American newspaper readers who lived through the stirring days 

immediately preceding our Spanish War will recall how patriotic 

Americans, like the late James Creelman, for instance, felt about the 

/fKaiser's w«ll-meant diplomatic efforts in the Spring of 1898 to make 

|f<6ur American people forgive what had happened to the Maine. 

EDWIN EMMERSON. 
March 8, 1915. — From the New York American, March 9, 1915. 

The Czar and the Kaiser 

You can see the Czar did nothing for peace if you read his cor- 
l'',respondence further on. The Czar began to mobilize before Austria 
'did. July 28, the Kaiser sent a note in which he said: "I shall exert 
my whole influence upon Austria-Hungary to induce her to reach an 
open and satisfactory agreement with Russia." The Czar replied 
that it was "an outrageous war against a weak country.'*' China and 
; Persia proved the Russians believe in wholesale assassinations, and 
/^Ho punish the Servians for an assassination of course would be out- 
rageous to the Czar. The Servians needed it as the Mexicans need 
it. The Czar said : "I may be forced to take measures which are 
bound to lead to war." The Kaiser warned the Czar that Russia 
should keep out. Otherwise it would draw Europe into the most ter- 
rible war in history and that the war preparations being taken by 
Russia were liable to hasten such a disaster. The Czar had four 
days previously decided upon partial mobilization and says arbitrate 
it down at The Hague. Yes, arbitrate. Yet the Czar does not wait to* 
see whether they will arbitrate, but keeps right on with his mobiliza- 
tion. His actions were warlike and speak louder than his mouth 
about arbitrating. 

In the meantime the Kaiser had brought pressure to bear upon 
Austria. Robert Crozier Long, formerly America's Special Com- 
missioner, Russo-Japanese war, was in Berlin at the time. He was 
shown a copy of Germany's note to Austria which caused Austria to 
offer to resume negotiations with Russia. But that very evening, 
regardless of Austria's willingness to negotiate, the Czar got busier 
than ever with his preparations for war. The Kaiser sent a note to 

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the Czar that Russian war measures against Germany and Austria- 
Hungary must stop in 12 hours. The Czar forged ahead heedless of 
the Kaiser's warning, making it plain that he intended war. The 
facts show that the Kaiser tried to bring Austria and Russia to a 
satisfactory agreement and that he tried to persuade Russia to not 
go ahead with war preparations until after he had tried to get a 
peaceable and satisfactory agreement between Austria and Russia. 
The Kaiser tried to keep Russia from going to war and he tried to 
keep England out of it and asked France to keep out. And he tried 
to get a peaceable settlement between Austria and Russia. Yet the 
papers here tell you the Kaiser is to blame for the war. They are 
liars and they know they are liars and deceivers. Let them lie and 
howl, but keep this book passing around. 

Official Telegrams 

Exact text of telegrams between the Kaiser, and the British, the 
Czar and the French begging them to not come and eat him, Ger- 
many. They prove that Germany earnestly strove for peace and 
only went to war after the Czar had forged ahead for blood : 

Kaiser's Early Offer to Promote Peace 

Emperor William to Czar Nicholas : '^uly 28, 10.45 P. M. 

'Tt is with the greatest apprehension I learn of the impression 
caused in thy Empire by Austria-Hungary's proceeding against Ser- 
bia. The unscrupulous propaganda that has been perpetuated for 
years in Serbia has led to the revolting crime to which Archduke 
Francis Ferdinand has fallen a victim. 

"The very spirit which had prompted the Serbians to murder 
their own King and his consort is still ruling that country. Thou 
wilt undoubtedly coincide with me, that it is for the common interest 
3f both of us, thou as well as myself and also any other sovereigns, 
that we insist, all those who are morally responsible for this dastardly 
murder should suffer their merited punishment. 

"On the other hand, I perceive well enough how difficult it would 
DC for thee and thy government to oppose the current of public opin- 
on. Remembering the cordial friendship uniting us for a consid- 
erable time, with a strong bond, I shall exert my whole influence upon 
\ustro-Hungary to induce her to reach an open and satisfactory 
igreement with Russia. 

'T confidently hope thou wilt support me in my endeavors to 
eliminate all difficulties which may yet arise. 

"Thy very sincere and devoted friend and cousin, 

"WILHELM." 

The Czar Says: "I May Be Forced to Take Measures Which Are 
Bound to Lead to War" 

Tzar Nicholas to Emperor William : 

"Peterhof Palace, July 29, 1 P. M. 
'T am very glad thou hast returned to Germany. At this so 

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grave moment I implore thee to help me. An outrageous war has 

been declared against a weak country, which fact has caused a tre- 
mendous indignation in Russia which I fully share. 

"I know I soon shall be unable to withstand the pressure exerted 
upon me, but be forced to take measures which are bound to lead to 
war. In order to prevent a disaster such as would be a European 
war, I beg thee in the name of our old friendship to do thy level best 
to restrain thy ally from going too far. "NICHOLAS." 

The Kaiser Warns the Czar That if He Does It Will Be the Worst 

War in History 

Emperor William to Czar Nicholas : 

"July 29, 6.30 P. M. 

"I received thy telegram and share thy wish for maintenance of 
the peace. However, as stated in my first telegram, I cannot view 
the act of Austria-Hungary as 'outrageous war.' 

"Austria-Hungary knows from experience that Serbian prom- 
ises, if only made on paper, are altogether untrustworthy. In my 
opinion, the act of Austria-Hungary is to be viewed as endeavoring 
to obtain full guarantee of Serbia that her promises be actually ful- 
filled. 

"This view of mine is confirmed by the declaration of the 
Austrian Cabinet to the effect that Austria-Hungary does not intend 
to make any territorial conquests at the expense of Serbia. Hence, I 
believe it quite possible for Russia to remain as spectator at the 
Austro-Serbian war, without drawing Europe into the most terrible 
war in history. 

"I believe a direct agreement between thy Government and 
Vienna to be possible and desirable, an agreement which my Govern- 
ment is bent to promote with all its powers — as I have already wired 
thee. Of course, military measures on the part of Russia, which 
may be regarded by Austria-Hungary as threatening, would hasten 
a disaster that we both desire to avoid. They also would undermine 
my position as mediator, which I gladly have accepted upon thy ap- 
peal for my friendship and aid. "WILHELM.^' 

The Czar Had Already Begun Partial Mobilization. He says: "You 

Can Tell Your Troubles Down at the Hague, But I am 

Going Ahead With My Preparations 

for War." 

Czar Nicholas to Emperor William : 

"Peterhof Palace, July 29th, 8:20 P. M. 
"Thanks for thy conciliatory and friendly telegram, whereas the 
official communication made to-day by thy Ambassador to my 
Minister were framed in a very different tone. Pray explain the 
difference. It would be more correct to submit the Austrian-Servian 
problem to The Hague Conference. 

"I rely upon thy wisdom and friendship. 

"NICHOLAS." 
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Kaiser's Warning on Mobilization. 

Emperor William to Czar Nicholas : 

''July 30, 1 A. M. 

"My Ambassador has been directed to indicate to thy Govern- 
ment the dangers and grave consequences of a mobilization ; I told 
thee the same in my last telegram. Austria-Hungary has only mobil- 
ized against Servia, at that only a part of her army. 

"If Russia should now mobilize against Austria-Hungary, as is 
actually the case, according to communications by thyself and thy 
Government, then my role as a mediator, which thou hast conferred 
upon me in so friendly a manner, and which I have accepted upon 
thy express request, will be jeopardized, if not rendered impossible. 

"The whole burden of decision is now resting upon thy shoul- 
ders ; they have to bear the responsibility for war or peace. 

"WILHELM." 

The Czar Says He Is Preparing for War, Yet He Hopes the Kaiser 

Will Not Do the Same, but Keep Right on Working for Peace 

and That a Little Thing Like Russian War Preparations 

Should Not Upset the Kaiser's Efforts for Peace. 

Czar Nicholas to Emporor William : 

"Peterhof, July 30, 1914, 1 :20 P. M. 

"I thank thee from the bottom of my heart for thy speedy an- 
swer. This evening I shall send up Tatishchoff with instructions. 

"The military measures now becoming effective have been de- 
termined upon already five days ago for reasons of defense against 
Austria's preparations. I hope from the bottom of my heart these 
measures will in no way influence thy position as mediator, so valued 
by myself. 

"We need thy strong pressure upon Austria to bring her to an 
agreement with ourselves. 

"NICHOLAS." 

That very evening the Czar ordered full mobilization for war. 

A German Note to the King of England Asking Him to Try to Per- 
suade Russia and France to Not to go to War. 

Prince Henry of Prussia to King George: 

"July 30, 1914. 

"Am here since yesterday. Have communicated to Wilhelm 
everything you told me so kindly at Buckingham Palace last Sunday, 
and he gratefully received your message. 

"\Vilhelm, greatly worried, is doing his utmost in working for 
the maintenance of peace, in response to Nicholas's request. He is in 
permanent telegraphic communication with Nicholas, who, to-day, 
confirms the report of having ordered military measures, tantamount 
to mobilization, which measures have been taken alreadv five days 
ago.^^ 

"Moreover, we are informed of France making military prepara- 

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tions, whereas we have not directed any measures, but may be forced 
to do so at any moment, if our neighbors should keep on. The up- 
shot would be a European war. 

*'If you wish really and sincerely to prevent this terrible disaster, 
may I suggest to you to prevail upon France and also upon Russia 
to remain neutral. This would prove to the greatest benefit, I think. 
I consider this a sure, perhaps the only, possibility of preserving Eu- 
rope's peace. 

'T may add, Germany and England should mutually support one 
another now more than ever, to prevent a terrible calamity, which 
otherwise would seem unavoidable. 

"Believe me, Wilhelm is most sincere in his efforts at preserving 
peace. However, he may ultimately be forced by the military prepa- 
rations of his two neighbors to follow their example in order to 
assure the safety of his own country, which otherwise would remain 
defenseless. 

'T have informed Wilhelm of my telegram to you, and I hope you 
will receive my communications in the same friendly spirit which has 
prompted them. 

"HEINRICH.'" 

That day (30th) Sir Edward Grey threatened to resign unless 
England supported Russia and France in war on Germany. 

France Asked to Remain Neutral. 

Dispatch from the German Chancellor to the German Ambassador 

in Paris : 

"July 31, 1914. Urgent. 

"Although negotiations of mediation are still pending, and al- 
though we have not taken any measures for mobilizing up to this 
hour, Russia has mobilized her whole army and navy; hence mo- 
bilized against us. Thereupon we have declared martial law, which 
will be followed by mobilization, if Russia does not stop her measures 
of war against us and Austria-Hungary within twelve hours. Mo- 
bilization would mean, in a word, a war. 

"Pray ask the French Government if she wants to remain neu- 
tral in a Russian-German war. Answer must be given within eigh- 
teen hours. Wire instantly the hour when you propose the question. 
Greatest haste is necessary. 

The Break Between Germany and Russia. 

Dispatch from the German Chancellor to the German Ambassador 

at St. Petersburg: 

"July 31, 1914. Urgent. 

"Although negotiations of mediation are still pending, and al- 
though we have not taken any measures for mobilizing up to this 
hour, Russia has mobilized her whole army and navy; hence, mobil- 
ized also against us. 

''By these Russian measures we have been forced to declare mar- 

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tial law for safeguarding the empire, a step that does not mean mo- 
bilization. But this mobilization must ensue if Russia does not stop 
any war measures against us and Austria-Hungary within twelve 
hours. Pray tell this instantly to M. Sasonofif and wire at what hour 
you saw him." 

Declaration of War on Russia. 

Dispatch from the German Chancellor to the German Ambassador 

at St. Petersburg: 

"August 1, 1914, 12:52 P. M. Urgent. 

"Should the Russian government fail to give satisfactory reply 
to our demand, please submit subjoined statement this afternoon at 
5 o'clock, mid-European time : 

" 'The imperial government has endeavored from the beginning of 
the crisis to find a pacific solution. Pursuant to the expressed wish of 
H. M. Emperor of Russia, H. M. Emperor of Germany has applied 
himself in accord with England to the task of mediating between the 
cabinets of Vienna and St. Petersburg, when Russia, without wait- 
ing the result, proceeded to mobilize her entire forces, ashore and 
afloat. 

" 'In consequence of this threatening measure, unjustified by any 
military preparation on the part of Germany, the German Empire 
found itself confronted by a grave and imminent danger. By failure 
to parry this peril the Imperial Government would have comprom- 
ised the security and even the existence of Germany. 

" 'Consequently, the German Government found itself forced to 
address the Government of H. M. Emperor of all the Russias, in- 
sisting that the military acts referred to above must cease. Russia, 
having refused to heed this demand, and having manifested by its 
refusal that its actions were directed against Germany, I have the 
honor by order of my Government to inform your Excellency of the 
following: 

" 'His Majesty, the Emperor, my august sovereign, in the name 
of the Empire, lifts the defi and considers himself in a state of war 
with Russia.' 

"Please wire when these instructions reached you and when you 
executed them, according to Russian time. 

"Please ask for your passports and turn over protection and busi- 
ness to American Embassy." 



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CHAPTER XXV. 

PROF. WILSON AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 

Prof. Wilson, you are somewhat familiar with ancient history, 
but you cannot dig up another instance in the history of the world 
where another nation furnished hundreds of milHons of dollars worth 
of arms and ammunition that was considered neutral. You American 
sapheads should remember that England has broken international 
law by the kind of blockade we have accepted, and our demagogues 
allow that to pass as O.K. Then these same demogogues jump upon 
Germany if she retaliates on England and pays her back in her own 
coin. 

To say that because Germany had such ammunition factories 
and England did not, that we should jump in and help England is 
another of these lying demagogues tricks to deceive the sapheads 
here. You hypocrites, if that is the kind of logic you want, then we 
should furnish Germany stuff to destroy the English navy, because 
England's navy is so much stronger than Germany's. We have had 
two wars with England, and have many times been on the verge of 
war with that pirate, John Bull. Yes that pirate objected to our 
fortifying the Panama Canal ; yet he has fortifications down in the 
ocean near that canal so as to be ready to come over and fight us 
again. If we were at war with England and Germany were furnish- 
ing the infernal stufjf to England, so that England could blow our 
citizens into hell, and yet the Germans would tell us they are neu- 
tral, we would say to hell with your neutrality. 

You ignoramuses should remember that it is an unprecedented 
international deal that confronts Germany. Without the enormous, 
unheard of supply of infernal stuff from America this war would have 
had to stop months ago. If that supply had been cut off the allies 
would have been at a standstill. International law never had to deal 
with such monstrous brand of hypocrisy as our so-called neutrality. 
The French order stuff here, but the manufacturers have got to 
make an agreement not to sell to Germany or Austria. And England 
contracts arms and ammunition, but the manufacturers must make an 
agreement not to sell to the Germans. And you demagogues and 
liars down at Washington lie to the people here and call such an in- 
fernal deal as that to Germany, neutrality. It is time for you to toot 
your Pharisee horn some more about how humanitarian you are and 
roll up your eyes and tear off a few more yards about the law of 
humanity. After this war ends, International Law needs to be over- 
hauled so that no nation can hand another nation such a treacherous 
deal as this country is handling Germany and then call it neutrality. 

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This is by far the most important matter that should be considered 
at the next conference on the law of nations. 

Churchill Says England Must Have the Life of Germany 

"It is our life against Germany's. Upon that there can be no 
compromise.'" — N. Y. Times, September 12, 1914. The great nations 
of Europe are trying to annihilate Germany, and this big nation is 
using money and its industries to destroy Germany. You big crooks 
and measly demagogues here know, just as well as you know you are 
alive, that England began back in 1906 to plot to get Germany into 
war and then have as many other nations jump on Germany as pos- 
sible so as to crush the Germans. You lying demagogues know this 
is the truth, and that is one reason you have been so anxious to land 
Lincoln back in England, so he can be shot for exposing it so thor- 
oughly in his book. You know this is true the same as you know 
that the history of our Revolutionary War is true. You demagogues 
and measly Tories. I am putting everything hot in this book so as to 
make people talk about it and wake people up to how you have lied 
to them and deceived them for that pirate, John Bull and Wall Street, 
that has made hundreds of millions out of this war in various ways. 

When a gang of assassins jumps a man he has the right to fight 
to save his life any way that he can fight. That is self-preservation, 
which also is the first law of nations. That British authority, Hal- 
leck, says : ''This right of self-preservation necessarily involves all 
other incidental rights which are essential as means to give effect 
to the principal end. And other nations have no right to prescribe 
what these means shall be." That is in exercising the right of self- 
preservation no nation -shall say how that nation shall fight to save 
itself. Another British authority. Sir R. Phillimore, says: "No nation 
has a right to prescribe to another what these means shall be." That 
is, what means it shall or shall not take to save itself. 

But the allies cannot annihilate Germany unless they get the 
war supplies from this country and Germany has the right to try to 
save herself by shutting ofif as much of that supply as she can. The 
allies cannot get that supply without ships. England cannot get it 
without ships. So then it is necessary for Germany to sink those 
transports, ships, that are engaged in delivering that supply. Ger- 
many has a moral and lawful right to sink those carriers coming or 
going without search. They are simply transports of stuff to kill 
Germans, and Germany has a right to sink those carriers on sight 
even if they are coming here. They will load up and go back with 
stuff to kill Germans. So Germany in self-preservation has the right 
to sink those ships on sight. Every ship sunk is a carrier less. 
Americans have no right on transports of stuff to kill Germans. In- 
ternational law allows the sinking of ships carrying such contraband. 
Calling them merchantmen does not save them at all. Germany has 
the lawful right to sink those ships the way she can sink them. 

We American people should remember that Germany has to deal 
with an unprecendented situation. A wealthy, industrial nation with 

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its resources has gone into the business of furnishing the war supplies 
in such unheard of quantities to annihilate another nation and calls 
such hellish treachery neutrality. Prof. Woodrow Wilson, you well 
know that nothing in history equals the hypocritical, diabolical, so- 
called neutrality of this nation. If you know of another single in- 
stance that begins to approach the enormity of our unprecedented 
treachery, just point it out and see what the American people think 
of it. England during the civil war was the nearest approach to it. 
But that was not a drop in the bucket to what this nation is doing to 
Germany. Revolution after revolution will come in Europe, and then 
this nation will make some history that will send the cold shivers 
down the backs of the Wall Street gang, and the longer this war lasts 
the worse will the afterclap be, which will hit this country, too. Then 
this measly administration will be looked upon as the worst fizzle 
in the history of the nation. 

The American People Have Been Deceived About International Law. 

The American people have been made to believe that by putting 
some Americans on a transport of war supplies then Germany cannot 
lawfully sink that ship. Such Americans have just as much right 
to go over along the trenches and line up in front of the English and 
then say that Germans must not fire at the English because that 
would kill Americans. Americans have rights on the sea, but not 
in ships that are known to be engaged in carrying stuff to kill Ger- 
mans. There are ships not engaged in carrying such supplies and 
the German submarines do not molest them. Americans are safe on 
those vessels. Germany has the right to sink without search vessels 
that are known to be engaged in carrying stuff to kill Germans. 

Mr. Wilson insists that Germany must visit and search. The 
reason he does this is so that the submarines cannot get to sink the 
vessels that are carrying stuff to kill Germans. In his note to Ger- 
many, May 13, 1915, he said: "It is practically impossible for the 
officers of a submarine to visit a merchantman at sea and examine her 
papers and cargo. . . . Manifestly, submarines cannot be used against 
merchantmen," transports of stuff to kill Germans — this is without 
visit and search. The only way Germany can sink the transports 
of war supplies is with her submarines. Yet Mr. Wilson insists that 
they must be visited. His note of May 13th, shows that his intention 
is to make it impossible as near as he can for the submarines to sink 
the vessels carrying stuff to kill Germans. This is done to obstruct 
Germany in her right of self-preservation. International law (Twiss) 
says: "The right of self-preservation gives to a nation a moral power 
of acting in regard to other nations in such a manner as may be re- 
quisite to prevent them from obstructing its preservation." That is 
the very thing Mr. Wilson is trying to do. Put a few Americans on 
the ammunition transports to obstruct Germany. The Americans 
have a right to go on the high sea, but not to obstruct Germany in her 
right to sink carriers of these war supplies. A man has a right to 
cross the railroad track, but he has no right to butt in ahead of the 

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engine and blame the engine for hitting him. Americans can travel 
on vessels not engaged in carrying war supplies and be safe. That is 
all a neutral man would ask in these perilous times. 

Sinking ships with war supplies is simply self-preservation and 
self-defense. Oppenheim states that: "From the earliest time of the 
existence of the Law of Nations, self-preservation was considered 
sufficient justification for many acts of a State which violated other 
States"; "Such acts of violence in the interest of self-preservation 
are exclusively excused as are necessary in self-defense" ; "An act 
of a state committed by right or prompted by self-preservation in 
necessary self-defense does not contain an international delinquency, 
however injurious it may actually be to another state." All British 
vessels that come to this country are engaged in carrying stuff to 
kill Germans, and Germany in self-defense should sink every one of 
them on sight. So as to prevent as much of the infernal stuff to kill 
Germans from getting in its deadly work. That is self-defense which 
no fair man can deny is Germany's right. To say that Germany must 
desist from using submarines is to say that she must cease to exer- 
cise the right of self-preservation and allow the implements and deadly 
stuff to be delivered unmolested. When a gang of assassins jumps a 
man, what does he do? Sells his life as dear as he can. So I say to 
Germany raise all the hell you can with England and her ships and 
let the Americans keep off of the ammunition ships. England is 
the lion among the nations. The lion means the heart, which con- 
trols the circulation of the blood, which in England's case means com- 
merce. The lion tears down what does not suit him. 

"The German Government offers the fullest guarantees that 
American ships, or aily neutral ships which the American Govern- 
ment may authorize to fly the American flag, will not be molested in 
voyaging to France, Italy, Great Britain — the American Government 
to see that such ships do not carry unlawful cargoes. 

The sole point at issue, then, is whether Germany'''s submarine 
warfare against the ships of her enemies is a matter subject to the 
dictation of a neutral nation or a matter for Germany to decide. 

Obviously, the fact that citizens of neutral nations voyaging on 
enemy ships have been killed or may be killed has nothing to do with 
the legal aspects of the case. 

If it is lawful for German submarines to sink enemy ships with- 
out previous visit and search, then citizens of neutral nations who 
voyage on such ships do so at their own peril and waive any rights of 
protection by their governments. 

That is an elemental truth and needs no argument. 

So the question stands this way: 

Have German submarines a lawful right to sink the merchant 
ships of hostile nations without previous visit, search and removal of 
passengers and crews? 

If such action is permissible under international laws of sea war- 
fare, then our government assumed an untenable position when it 

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undertook to compel Germany to cease its submarine warfare upon 
Great Britain's commerce. 

If such submarine attacks are illegal under the international 
rules of sea warfare, then the sinking of British ships on which 
Americans are voyaging becomes a just cause of remonstrance and, 
under certain eventualities, a just excuse of the use of force. 

The difficulty in a fair discussion of this issue arises at the very 
threshold. Nobody knows what the rules of international law gov- 
erning submarine warfare are, because submarine warfare is so recent 
that international law has no rules concerning it. 

The rules of international law governing ordinary sea warfare 
are indefinite enough, for the reason that the Declaration of London 
which sought to define them and to protect innocent passengers on 
merchant vessels failed of ratification by the British Government, 
although the German Government expressed a willingness to ratify 
it and abide by it. 

The rules of international law governing submarine warfare 
remain wholly to be formulated at some future conference. Neither 
the Declarations of The Hague, of Paris nor of London covers the 
point in dispute. 

Now obviously no conference of the Powers to establish inter- 
national rules of submarine warfare can possibly be held until this 
war is over. 

And obviously, too, no single nation, such as our own, can 
formulate in advance of such a general conference an entirely new 
section of maritime law which would be in any sense international. 

Such a declaration by one nation might bind it, but it cannot 
have the force of international law to bind nations which had no part 
in making the declaration. 

The humanities or inhumanities of any specific case have no 
vital relation to the matter. 

All warfare is inhuman. All war is waged to maim and to kill 
and to destroy. The mere inhumanity of sinking an unarmed British 
ship is no more our lawful diplomatic concern than the inhumanity of 
Gerrnans and Britons kiUing each other by the thousands with high 
explosives, gas, liquid fire, incendiary bombs or any other of the cruel 
and unusual methods of slaughter which both sides have used to 
the limit of their resources. 

Diplomatically we have to do only with the legal aspect of war- 
fare which may result in killing American citizens or destroying 
American property, and, unless we can show that any specific act of 
warfare is contrary to international law, the incidental killing of Amer- 
ican citizens or destruction of American property is not a matter for 
which we can justly call either combatant to account." — From an 
editorial in N. Y. American, July 12, 1915. 

The "Lusitania"— -Why Germany Was Justified in That Sinking. 

This administration relies upon buncombe and gall and sophistry and 
British interests instead of international law in dealing with Germany. 

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England has always stood for food to be non-contraband until this war. 
Then England repudiated .her former stand and illegally shut out our 
legitimate commerce from Germany in order to starve the Germans. It is 
no fault of John Bull's that the Germans are not starving by the millions. 
John Bull is diabolically doing all he can to starve them. England repu- 
diated her former stand that food should not be shut out from a belligerent. 
England and France even shut out our milk from the German babies. But 
when England is using an illegal blockade to starve them to death, it is awful 
for Germany to retaliate on the allies' commerce, while France and England 
are shutting out our milk so the German babies will starve. No, Germany 
must not be allowed to give England's commerce hell to pay her back, even 
though international law allows retaliation. British kind of fair play and 
neutrality down at Washington for Germany. I am delighted to roast you 
hypocrites. 

We were and are furnishing the infernal stuff to blow Germans into 
hell by the thousands and so hypocritical as to label such treachery neu- 
trality. What Germany did to cause Americans to lose their lives is not 
a drop in the bucket to what the greedy devils had already done to Germany 
and Austria. If Germany could have sent her navy over here to call on 
New York City about this diabolical ammunition treachery, that conceited 
professor would suddenly have found that, in his own language, "the best 
practice of nations in matter of neutrality" is his 1913 brand of neutrality, 
that is, not help either side. But England's great navy has the Germans 
shut in there and the devils here hustle out the infernal stuff to blow the 
Germans into hell. It is a hell of brand of Christianity that is doped out 
in this country or they would soon convince this little-headed professor 
that this political future is behind him. They are not followers of Christ. 
They have never heard of, "Blessed are the peace-makers." With them it 
is "Blessed are the bloody ammunition makers." You hypocrites, you will 
reap what you have sown. The measure you mete, it shall be measured to 
you. The Bible is not a lie. "Riches profiteth not in the day of wrath. He 
that trusteth in riches shall fall" (Prov. xi, 4, 28). But this greedy, hypo- 
critical nation (Isaiah x, 6) can not see that it has invited its own destruc- 
tion. O, we are rich. You have sown the implements of hell and hell you 
will reap and at a time when you will have no way to turn. Remember 
now I tell you it will not be many months until you will be howling and 
howling about the yellow race more than you have howded about Belgium 
and the Litsitania. I will prove to you that England deliberately plotted to 
let a German submarine get the Lusitania so as to stir up the American 
people to get them into the war. I will also show you how England de- 
liberately planned so hell would be raised in Belgium. John Bull needs to 
be marched out back of the barn and hit with an axe. 

I am going to argue the Lusitania from the standpoint of international 
law. You have only heard about secondary rights down at Washington. 
Sapheads you and your lying politicians have ignored the first principles of 
international law. 

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Without the Arms and Ammunition From This Country England 
Could Not Have Kept Up the War. 

You big crooks and greedy ammunition devils know this is the truth. 
You big crooks know that there has never been such a thing as a country- 
taking about fifty million dollars to build new factories and additions and 
equipment and a hundred other factories going into the business of manu- 
facturing infernal stuff to blow a nation into hell and then excusing such 
cussedness by international law. That law only justifies the normal output. 
Such a treacherous deal as you have handed Germany has never been 
equalled by any so-called neutral nation. You have done more, much more 
in this respect than Japan to help the allies, and Japan is a belligerent. 
Outdoing a belligerent in worsting Germany. Without the enormous supply 
from this country the war would have ended long ago. Our normal output 
would not have been a drop in the bucket, and that is all the laws of nations 
could justify you in furnishing and calling yourself neutral. You first 
stretched international law with Germany before Germany did with you. 
The professor ruled always in favor of England, and so did Bryan until he 
popped out of the box for the 191 6 campaign. Bryan and his incurable 
grouches will be attended to farther on. 

I know that nothing now can be done to save the white race. But all 
the same I am going to show up how treacherous the liars here have been 
about Germany. The big crooks here can disregard Internaional Law in 
their deal with Germany, but Germany must not be allowed the least to 
overstep that law even when England, France and Russia plotted to get 
Germany into war and then all of them jump onto Germany at once and 
this country is made the base of military supplies without which their in- 
fernal assassination plot would have had to stop long ago. You big crooks 
and your puppets know it is the devilish truth. Because England is as 
rotten as Mexico, and was tottering, you helped her tear down Germany so 
as to build up old Hinglarid. And you are so treacherous and blind as to 
imagine that there is no way that it is to come home to you and old Hingland. 
Well, you will soon tumble to it, that this universe is wound up on the 
retributive plan. You reap what you sow; the measure you mete, it shall 
be measured to you. Because you have so deceived the people with your 
men down at Washington and had your high-handed way, you imagine you 
are safe in your diabolical game. It will all come home to you and you 
cannot side-step retribution. Peace will yet be taken from all the earth and 
not just part of Europe. But peace is to be taken from all the earth is the 
Scriptural prophecy (Rev. vi, 4), and the Bible is the only safe guide in 
these perilous times. But according to you and your professor, the Bible 
is a lie. You will reap what you have sown. The time is not far away that 
the yellow race will not want your money but your life. There is no safety 
except in justice. But justice and politics have both been rotten since the 
money power was enthroned during the rebel war. There is but one in- 
evitable end — rotten things go to pieces. The time will come that the world 
will be ruled by love instead of the worship of money and the worship of 
self. But human nature has got to have a terrific experience before they 
will right about face and allow the world to be ruled by love instead of 
money and ego. The times are ripe for sudden and unexpected culmina- 

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tions. That will be apparent to the high-and-mighty here under our next 
administration. Big Money is in the saddle and may as well stay in the 
saddle too, as far as warding off the catastrophe is concerned. It will do 
no good to oust them at this late day. ^ 

The Blackest Page in American History. 

The blackest page in our. history is not human slavery, infernal as it 
was. A white brute down in Washington, D. C, was the father of 25 
children by negro women who were his slaves, and he sold those children 
into slavery, and this was a common thing in the south. Truthful "Uncle 
Tom's Cabin" is still the most unpopular book in the south that ever was 
published. 

The blackest page in American history is our manufacturing of the 
infernal stuff to blow a nation into hell and then hypocritically calling such 
diabolical treachery neutrality. The law by which our lying politicians 
pretend to justify this infernal deal to Germany and label it neutrality is 
just as diabolical as the law by which the Jews justified themselves in cruci- 
fying Christ. This will sound seditious to the lying Wall Street gang and 
the politicians that serve them. Once it was seditious to denounce human 
slavery. Now howl, you devils. 

More Infernal Stuff Going to the Allies Now Than Ever. 

Two Millions of U. S. Munitions Sent to Europe Daily. Total War 
Shipments Now $250,000,000 and the Production is Growing 

Rapidly. 

Washington, D. C, Feb. 16. — American-made war munitions are now 
pouring into Europe at the rate of nearly $2,000,000 worth daily, with the 
figures swelling rapidly. Not until the middle of 191 5 did war materials 
contracted for begin to move in considerable quantities. Department of 
Commerce estimates to-day put total munitions shipments since the war 
began close to $250,000,000. At the present rate of shipment THE NEXT 
FOUR MONTHS WOULD SEE THIS TOTAL DOUBLED EVEN IF 
PRODUCTION REMAINED AT A STANDSTILL. BUT PRODUC- 
TION IS DECLARED TO BE GROWING FASTER NOW THAN AT 
ANY TIME SINCE AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS BEGAN TURN- 
ING THEIR PLANTS INTO MUNITIONS FACTORIES. 

More than $100,000,000 worth of high explosive shells have left Ameri- 
can shores. Powder comes next with shipments of nearly $ioo,oo(5,ooo. 
Small arm cartridges are third with $30,000,000. Firearms, including ord- 
nance, exports are put at less than $20,000,000. — From N. Y. American, 
Feb. 17, 1916. 

That the people of the United States, deliberately, avowedly and with 
the aid of all that industrial efficiency for which we are famous, should 
now be helping to prolong the war for the profit of a few of our citizens 
is execrable. 

AND THE WITHHOLDING OF AME'RICAN MONEY, AMERI- 
CAN EXPLOSIVES AND AMERICAN ARMS ^ WOULD COMPEL 
PEACE. 

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How can we protest against barbarism while we supply its tools? How 
cry aloud in horror at the massacre of Armenian Christians when we furnish 
money to Christians massacring each other? How can we preach peace 
while filling our pockets with the bloody spoils of war? 

Let us while it is not too late purge ourselves of blood guiltiness and 
highly resolve that from this nation, devoted as it is to the ideals of peace, 
there shall proceed nothing more to aid the red madness of murder and 
rapine which is sweeping Western civilization into the pit of anarchy. — 
N. Y. American, Oct. i, 1915. 

It is a Bloody Man That Would Not be Glad to Have This Awful 

War Stop and the World Have Peace Which Can Only Last 

About Three Years Before the Next European War 

Comes. 

Yet there are men down at Washington and all over the country that 
do not want peace. No, there has not been enough bloodshed and hell to 
suit them. They want the endless stream of ships with their loads of death 
and destruction going from us to the allies. In about three years the next 
European war between Russia and Turkey will come and then soon will 
peace be taken from all the earth and you hard-hearted hypocrites that call 
this infernal deal you are handing Germany neutrality, will get war brought 
right to your own dooryards here by the yellow race. You then cannot get 
peace on any terms. You want war and you will get war when you have 
no way to turn, and at a time when law and order in this country will not 
exist. Stupid humanity is filled with greed and hate and so deceived and 
blind that you cannot bring them to their senses here, and make them see 
the destruction they are inviting. The yellow race will only need transports 
and no artillery and but little ammunition, because the white race will be 
disorganized and helpless. They do not realize how rotten the state of 
affairs are here, just as though these measly politicians and Wall Street were 
noble and altruistic. They have got to wait until law and order is swept 
away here before they will believe it. Then they will be utterly helpless. 
No one can say that I have not earnestly tried to wake people up to how they 
are rushing headlong to destruction, and so has W^illiam Randolph Hearst. 
Stupid humanity ! 

Here is what I wrote about it in September, 1914: "Down with Ger- 
many, you short-sighted, and thus tear down the roofs over your own heads 
in America and Europe. The yellow race mowed down about fifty million 
whites once, and have tried it at other times, and will try it again soon. 
Have we got to wait till they are at it before the people will wake up and 
see the danger? In the near future the venemous hatred the yellow race 
has for the white will break out in China, Japan, and even in India, as sud- 
denly and unexpectedly as the war in Europe, and with such strength and 
fury that it will appall the stoutest heart. This pamphlet is written to 
warn the white nations who, instead of " slaughtering each other, should 
stand together like brothers. There is no peace and safety except in just 
and humane conditions within and without. But England instead of righting 
the wrongs in her own household goes to tearing down Germany to improve 
herself. See the poverty in England. Such poverty does not exist in Ger- 

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many. There the government helps the people to be thrifty, but England 
lets them starve and jumps in to destroy Germany. That is the British gov- 
ernment that set a yellow nation to fighting Germany, just as it set the 
savages on us in the Revolutionary War. — From "A New Argument For 
Peace." 

Since March, 1913, we have had the measliest, smallest politicians down 
at Washington we ever had. 

Germany and International Law. 

Sapheads and liars, get the first principles of International Law through 
your skulls! The British authority, Halleck's International Law, says of 
the right of self-preservation: "This is one of the most essential and im- 
portant rights incident to State sovereignty, and lies at the foundation of all 
the rest. It is not only a right with respect to other States, but a duty with 
respect to its own members, and one of the most solemn and important duties 
which it owes to them." 

Self-preservation prevents attack as well as repells it. Another British 
authority. Sir R. Phillimore's International Law, says: "The Right of Self- 
Preservation, by that defence which prevents, as well as that which repels, 
attack, is the next International Right which presents itself for discussion, 
which it will be seen, may under certain circumstances, and to a certain 
extent, modify the Right of Territorial Inviolability." 

Self-preservation is the first law of nations as well as nature. Sir R. 
Phillimore says: "No nation has a right to prescribe to another what these 
means shall be, or to require any account of her conduct in this respect." 
Germany had to deal with an unprecedented situation. A nation had gone 
into the business of supplying the war material to crush Germany, yet and 
without that supply the allies would be unable to carry on the war. Then 
the law of self-preservation justifies Germany in cutting off as much of 
that unprecedented supply as she could. That is her own self-preservation, 
and "no nation has any right to prescribe to another what these means shall 
be, or to require any account of her in that respect." Because the big crooks 
and lying politicians here had made this country the base of military supplies 
without which England could not have carried on this war. They did this 
and then hypocritically called it neutrality. It made no difference what 
they called their cussedness. Germany has the right of self-preservation, 
that is, not to sit still and let their hellish work go on without trying to 
cut off as much of that supply as possible in the way she could. The only 
way was to sink every carrier of these war supplies without which the 
infernal stuff could not be used against Germany. This was simply exer- 
cising her right of self-defense or self-preservation by the only means within 
her power, that was her submarines. Remember, "no nation has a right to 
prescribe to another what these means shall be." Swiss International Law 
says: "The right of self-preservation gives a nation a moral power of acting 
in regard to other nations in such a manner as may be requisite to prevent 
them from obstructing its preservation." Yet this is the very thing the 
Americans did. Load up the ships with arms and ammunition and put on a 
few Americans so as to obstruct Germany in her right to sink that ship. 
Germany had the moral right to sink as many of these carriers of ammuni- 

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tion as possible. Because this country was and is under the pretense of 
neutrality, doing more than Japan is doing to help England and her allies. 
This nation turning out the enormous quantities of infernal stuff to blow 
the Germans and Austrians into hell is unprecedented in any nation that 
has ever been called neutral. You big crooks know that no belligerent ever 
before in the history of the world rendered such service to another nation 
as we are to England, and yet you liars and hypocrites have the gall to call 
it neutrality. Yet what we are doing has never been equalled by any other 
nation even by a belligerent before this war. You are a set of big liars 
and diabolical hypocrites. It is time to tell you the truth when our civiliza- 
tion is about done for. 

Germany was within her moral rights in sinking every carrier of 
ammunition, and it makes no difference how many Americans were put on 
to protect it. To deprive her of that right is to obstruct her in exercising 
her right of self-defense. That British authority, Sir R. Phillimore, says: 
"From the earliest time of existence of the Laws of Nations, self-preserva- 
tion was considered sufficient justification for many acts of a State which 
violated other States" ; and ''Such acts of violence in the interest of self- 
preservation are exclusively excused as are necessary in self-defense." Fur- 
ther, "An act of state committed by right or prompted by self-preservation 
in necessary self-defense does not contain an international delinquency, how- 
ever injurious it may actually be to another State." This law justified Ger- 
many in sinking every carrier of ammunition regardless of how many Amer- 
icans were aboard. Oppenheim says: "But it must be specially emphasized 
that a State never bears any responsibility for losses sustained by foreign 
subjects through, legitimate acts of administrative officials and military 
and naval forces." 

International Law requires search before sinking ships and the protec- 
tion of neutrals. This is secondary rights. That law does not in the least 
apply to this unprecedented situation that Germany had to deal with, though 
Germany gave in to it because the whole world were diabolically against 
her. It was not because of the justice of law but the great odds that were 
trying to crush her that she has given in. Search is required but that was 
when there were fast cruisers that could overhail ships and stop them. 
Germany has the right of self-defense, that is, to cut off as much of that 
infernal supply as she could in the way she could, and no nation has the 
right to obstruct her in exercising that right. That is just what Wilson did. 
When Russia and Japan were at war, England notified her subjects to keep 
off of belligerent ships except at their ovvn risk. But Wilson wanted the 
Americans on these ships so as to make sure of delivering the infernal stuff 
to kill Germans and to protect British ships. It was not xA.merican lives, or 
he would have told them to keep off of English ships as he told them to get 
out of Mexico. Yes he told them to get out of Mexico when it meant for 
them to lose their property and business interests. But for them to keep off 
of British ships would not have kept them from sailing the seas or made them 
lose their property, because there were plenty of ships they could take that 
were not carrying ammunition and stuff to kill Germans, and Germany agreed 
to not interfere with such ships, so that American lives would be safe. He 
warned them out of Mexico when it meant that the loss of property for them 

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to heed him, but he would not warn them off British ships when they could 
have gone safely on the sea by taking another ship. So you see it was not 
American lives that were so dear to him -as helping old Hingland, the land 
of his grandparents. We were and are furnishing the infernal stuff to keep 
the war going, and obstructed Germany in her right to cut off as much of 
that supply as she could in the only way she could, which was the aim of this 
administration to help out the land of the professor's grandparents. Load 
up the ships with the infernal stuff to blow thousands of Germans into hell 
and then grab your Pharisee horn down at Washington and toot about how 
damned humanitarian you are. The fools here will believe you, but you can 
bet your Pharisee horn on it I do not. 

We have no right to obstruct Germany in her sinking of ammunition 
carriers. Not any more than we have to walk across the railroad track and 
insist that the locomotive has got to stop for us to cross the track. Germany 
gave the American warnng and told them, too, there were ships they could 
travel on and not be molested. That was enough for any neutral American. 
Your rotten, hypocritical civilization is about done for. You have helped in 
destroying it. You will see enough imder our next administration to give 
you the cold shivers. CiviHzation is on a big, crazy drunk and will later 
go on a still worse one. When a gang of assassins jump on a man as Eng- 
land, Russia and France did on Germany, he has a right to fight any way 
that he can to save himself. This is just what happened to Germany, and 
she was justified in sinking the Lusitania and her cargo of ammunition. 

Submarines are warcrafts in all navies to-day, and to allow merchantmen 
to arm against submarines makes all such merchantmen warships, and you 
liars here well know this is international law, which justifies Germany in 
sinking all such armed ships without warning. But the Tories and hypocrites 
here that have got in control of our government allow such warships to come 
into our port and load up and clear. You measly liars know that is a viola- 
tion of international law. You cannot do such a thing and call yourself 
neutral. Then you tried to make Germany admit that the sinking of the 
Lusitania was illegal. If John Bull cannot make Germany say it is illegal 
it is not your job to jump in and referee that sinking. But you are so damned 
anxious to help out the land of the professor's grandparents. You are a set 
of measly hypocritical curs and have got the sapheads here so deceived that 
you can do anything to Germany and it goes down. And this is the 
hypocritical, greedy American civilization that claims to save the world. 
Well, you fools will have only a few short years to wait to get it demon- 
strated to you that you have cut your own throats. Stupid humanity acts as 
though the Bible were a lie, and with them it is, blessed are the bloody am- 
munition makers, and lying politicians. Do not talk of honor among these 
demagogues and pork-grabbers down at Washington; it is gall and sophistry 
and buncombe and the land of the professor's grandparents. We needed 
Wm. Randolph Hearst down there in the place of Woodrow Wilson. The 
British flag would not fly over the White House then, sure shot. You bun- 
combe tooters, it is time to tell the country the truth about you. 
Why is the Life of An American More Sacred on a British Transport 
of War Supplies Than on Mexican Soil or in Texas? 

"Our soldiers, camped on their own soil and patrolling their own border, 

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have been fired upon and both wounded and killed. Our citizens, peacefully 
pursuing their vocations in their own homes, have been deliberately fired 
upon across the border by Mexican troops and have been killed under the use- 
less shelter of their own flag. 

"A consulate of the United States has been attacked in broad day, the 
consul shot to death and his dead body dragged into the streets with jeers and 
scornful laughter, while the flag which should have protected him was trampled 
upon, spit upon and finally torn to shreds in a malignant excess of scorn and 
hate. 

"And in every state of Mexico, American men and women have been 
murdered and their properties divided and lost among the assassins calling 
themselves soldiers. 

"We again ask Mr. Wilson how he can reconcile his willingness — and 
what almost seems, at times, his eagerness — to plunge this nation into the 
maelstrom of this awful European war over the loss of American lives, in- 
cidential to marine warfare between civilized Powers, with his long and in- 
active endurance of all these insults and outrages offered by Mexican bel- 
ligerents to the citizens, the flag, the dignity and the sovereignty of this na- 
tion?" — From N. Y. American, Aug. 2, 1915. 



John Bull Deliberately Sacrificed the "Lusitania" to Enrage the Sap- 
heads Here and Stir Up England. (Written July, 191 5.) 

Failure in this war has been looming up before the blundering British, 
and it has been such a .hopeless task to arouse the English people to keep the 
war going, let alone winning it, and there was such agitation in this country 
opposing this nation's being England's second in the duel for the life of 
Germany, that something had to be done to still more enrage the sapheads 
against Germany. England is spending 15 millions a day on this war and 
the agitation here to shut off her supply of ammunition has been pretty 
vigorous, and the English people refused to wake up and enlist and get into 
the trenches. (This was July, 1915; now, February, 1916, England is spend- 
ing 25 millions a day and her national debt is three times what is was before 
this war.) "More Frenchmen lie dead or in the hospitals than England has 
yet sent men to the war. The length of the battle line from the Channel 
to the Alsace-Lorraine frontier is roughly estimated at 440 miles. Of this the 
British have defended at times from thirty-two to forty miles — a rather small 
proportion for the amount of glory claimed for their share in the general 
defense." — N. Y. American, June, 1915. The English at home are determined 
that this war shall go on as long as the French will fight. But to arouse them 
enough so they would go over and sail into the fighting Germans was such a 
hopeless task. You could see by the shake-up in the Cabinet there that some- 
thing had to be done. The loss of the Lusitania is a small item in winning 
this war. So the British Admirality deliberately sacrifices the Lusitania; but 
all the facts about how they planned to let a German submarine get tTiat ves- 
sel and then have the loss of life to be so great will never be known. But 
it can easily be proved that some of the facts are suppressed. 

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Here Are the Facts About What the British Admiralty Did to Let a 
Submarine Get the "Lusitania." 

England knew that the Germans were going to try to get the Lusitania. 
Because they had advertised they would, and England knows the Germans 
are no bluffers. They back up their words with action. 

The Washington, D. C., Post, states the following fact: 

'The British government was aware that a desperate effort was to be 
made to sink the Lusitania. The warning issued by Germany was as well 
known in England as in the United States. The captain of the Lusitaina is 
an officer of the royal naval reserve, and he was in communication with the 
British admirality at all times. He was under orders from the admirality, 
and the ship's movements were controlled by these orders. 

"Why was it, then, that Capt. Turner took the beaten path and appeared 
in the war zone exactly on schedule time, at the place where the enemy might 
expect to find him? 

"Why was it that he slowed down from 24 or more knots to 17 knots, 
at the same time blowing his fog whistle continually, although the weather 
was fine and clear? 

"Why was it that no British patrol boats or torpedo boats or other war- 
ships appeared to escort the Lusitania, in view of the warning that had been 
issued by the enemy? 

"Why was it that the censorship was applied with drastic severity, com- 
pletely shutting off all information as to the nature of the instruction given 
to Capt. Turner? 

"Capt. Turner testified at the inquest that he obeyed wireless orders of 
the admiralty. What were those orders, and why does the British government 
conceal them from the public? 

"The suggestion is made in some quarters that the British government 
actually relied upon the presence of American passengers on the Lusitania as 
a safeguard against attack; that instead of guarding the Lusitania with war- 
ships, or ordering her to take another route and try and evade submarines, 
the British government deliberately used the American passengers as a shield, 
relying upon their presence to save the ship and its cargo of war material 
from attack. 

"The Post makes no charge that the British government and the master 
of the Lusitania deliberately placed the vessel in the track of danger and 
advertised her presence there, in the confident expectation that the German 
submarines would let the vessel pass rather than run the risk of destroying 
American lives. But we do say that if Capt. Turner had desired to give 
German submarines notice of his identity and whereabouts, and had desired 
to facilitate in every way a successful torpedo attack, he coidd not have taken 
more effective means to carry out his purpose. Therefore, in common with 
many other Americans, this newspaper would like to know what answer 
would be made to the questions propounded above." 

I have a copy of the N. Y. Globe, May 14, 191 5, containing this state- 
ment: "Congressman Richard P. Hobson to-day expressed his opinion of 
the President's note to Germany in a statement which he gave to the public 
through George H. Hull, his brother-in-law, of 30 Pine street. Hobson tele- 

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phoned the statement to this city from Torrington, Conn. In the course of 
the statement he says: 

" 'A widowed cousin of mine applied at the New York office of the 
Cunard Line for passage on the Lusitania. The booking agent, an old 
friend, took her off apart and told her that the vessel was acting under Admir- 
alty orders, and that she simply must not take passage on it. He pledged 
her to secrecy until after the trip.' 

"This fact brings up pertinent questions. Why did not the Cunard 
Company give to all parties applying for passage the same humane advice 
its agent, for old friendship sake, gave to my cousin, instead of loading the 
vessel down with a full passenger list, including many distinguished Ameri- 
cans, whose loss would necessarily strike the American imagination?" 

Since Mr. Hobson's statement was made public, the agent of the Cunard 
Line characterized it as "absolutely false." Why not? No one expects John 
Bull to confess his diabolical plots. But Mr. Hobson's cousin would have 
no difficulty in proving that the Cunard man she said she saw is an old-time 
friend of hers. The fact that Mr. Hobson's cousin intended going on the 
Lusitania and went to the office in time to secure passage but changed her 
mind, should be proof conclusive that she spoke the truth, even though five 
swore to a different story it would not make the lie the truth. 

The Lusitania Kept Going Slow When Even the Passengers Saw a 

Submarine Around. 

Dr. Foss, of Harlem, Mont., a survivor of the Lusitania, said in an 
interview to the New York World, that he saw a submarine about a mile 
off and the Lusitania was moving so slowly that it kept pace with the ship 
for five minutes, for he looked at his watch. He said: "It was plain that she 
had been seen from the bridge and that they should have put on more speed." 
This was about 1.45 and about 2.15 the powerful explosion came. That is, 
the Lusitania had been going slow for about half an hour when even the 
passengers had seen a submarine around. In a copy that I have of the 
New York American, May 12, 191 5, is a fact that the Washington Post also 
has pointed out: "Queenstown, May 11. — Fred J. Perry, of London, one' of 
the survivors of the Lusitania, said: I consider the slow speed of the Lusi- 
tania and the fact that she kept blowing her fog horn as nothing more than 
an invitation to the Germans to come and torpedo her." It was a clear day 
and a fogless sea, yet the captain kept tooting the fog horn regularly. He 
was obeying orders. He was ordered to toot the fog horn so the Ger- 
mans could not fail to find her. He received orders by wireless just before 
entering the submarine zone, but he refused to divulge what these orders 
were. He was under orders. So he did what he was ordered to do; that is 
he was ordered to do what he did, toot the fog horn and go slow and all. 

How They Managed to Get Americans Aboard the Lusitania. 

To get Americans aboard in New York they poohed at submarines and 
told how fast the Lusitania could go, and that the submarines could not get a 
shot at her. And then when they got over where the submarines were they 
slowed down and tooted and tooted the fog horn on a clear day and a fogless 

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sea, and kept going slow when even the passengers had seen a submarine 
around and the boilers were blowing off steam. Then when the torpedo hits 
her, tell the passengers that the vessel is safe and cannot sink, when, as 
Dr. Foss, of Harlem, Mont., said, members of the crew were putting on their 
life preservers. But the officers megaphoned, as Fred J. Perry said, to the 
passengers that the boat would float and that there was no danger, and so, 
many of the passengers stood perfectly cool and collected and made no at- 
tempt to rush to the boats. This is what Fred J. Perry said. Yet members 
of the crew were putting on life-preservers, said Dr. Foss, of Harlem, Mont. 
The Captain had orders to do what he did: go slow, toot the fog horn, and, 
if torpedoed, to tell the passengers that they were safe, so they would not try 
to save themselves, and thus go down with the ship and make the loss of life 
as appalling and great as possible. It is time to march John Bull out back 
of the barn and hit him with an ax. It will only be a few short years until 
retribution a-plenty will be handed out to the bloody British brutes who 
are to blame for this war. It will not be long until it will be done unto 
John Bull as he has always done unto others. That is the way this universe 
is wound up. Let them pile up the debts and taxes in their rule-or-ruin 
determination to be the biggest thing on earth; well, it will not be long — 
•only a few years more — until the jobs of those bloody British stiffs will get 
a jolt. 

Deliberately planned to let a German submarine get that vessel after 
they had got as many Americans on board as possible so as to get the 
Americans into their war to crush Germany. Prominent Britishers have 
urged America to go to war and help whip Germany. That is one reason 
why they sacrificed the Lusitania. But to excuse the slow speed England 
said they were short of coal as well as stokers. They were not so short 
but that they could arrive in the submarine zone on schedule time. They 
could have gone slow on this end of the trip and then opened her up over 
there. And if they were short of coal they could have sent some of their 
destroyers to protect it. But they hold an investigation and have that investi- 
gation behind closed doors, and any one that is not a saphead could see by 
that they were covering things up as much as possible and that it was not an 
open, honest, enlightening investigation. It is no wonder the British say the 
Americans are fools. The way they have them fooled in this war justifies 
that opinion. 

The British Could Have Protected the "Lusitania." 

"The British Government dodged Lord Charles Beresford's question in 
Parliament as to the reason why no protection was given the Lusitania in the 
war zone. The hint was given that the Admiralty had no available destroy- 
ers, but that seems incredible. 

"As a matter of fact the Admiralty could have saved the Lusitania unless 
most exceptional circumstances arose. Two or three destroyers, the natural 
enemies of and safeguards against the submarine, meeting the great ship 
before she entered the war zone and convoying her into the Mersey would 
have in all probability warded off any successful attack. 

"No lack of ships can be pleaded in explanation of this Admiralty blunder. 
Even though a great screen of cruisers, torpedo boats and destroyers is 

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needed to guard the troop ships carrying the army across the channel, Great 
Britain has still sufficient to have spared a few to guard so important a mer- 
chantman as the Lusitania. The four cruisers that for months have been 
lying off New York harbor, with the effect mainly of harassing American 
merchantmen and irritating American public sentiment, might have been 
better employed on this service. And all along the South American and 
Asiatic coasts are British men-of-war that evidently could be more useful 
guarding the waters about Britain's home ports." — From an editorial in the 
N. Y. American, May ii, 191 5. 

The article on the Lusitania was prepared in July, 191 5. But there is 
nothing to change. The Lusitania was sacrificed by the British government 
to stir up the American sapheads and get us into the war with Germany and 
to wake up the British people to fight. But even then the British have had 
to resort to conscription to make the English get into the war. England and 
France have completely deceived the sapheads here and made them believe 
they are trying to crush Germany in the interests of humanity, and then 
they sacrificed the Lusitania to get the American sapheads to jump into the 
war and fight Germany. The French are completely disgusted with the 
Americans because they have not gone to war with Germany. The feeling 
is almost as bad against us in England for the same reason. To think that, 
they have fooled the "idiotic Yankees" here and made them believe that Ger- 
many ought to be crushed in the interests of humanity, and then England 
sacrificed a lot of our citizens on the Lusitania to get us into it, and we keep 
out, it disgusts them. In this war we should have been against our old 
enemy, and that is England, and not done a thing for that infernal pirate, 
John Bull. He will get all that he needs. 

During the Russian-Japanese war England warned her citizens to keep off 
of belligerent boats, and this government should have done the same. There 
were plenty of ships that did not carry ammunition and Germany did not 
molest them. The British government and our own government are the 
ones to blame. The treacherous inhuman deal this government has given 
Germany is a disgrace and outrage to American principles. This administra- 
tion of unprecedented gall and sophistry has helped burden the warring na- 
tions with such debts that will soon crush civilization. Then Woodrow 
Wilson will be looked upon as the most overrated man that was ever in the 
White House. You will not have to wait four years to see what his talk 
about the law of humanity has done for this country. You big Wall Street 
crooks cannot avert it now. You may as well keep on deceiving the people. 
I could tell you a lot more about how trouble in this country will start, what 
will precipitate it. But you are so wise, just go ahead in your diabolical 
way with things down at Washington as you intend to. It is too late in the 
day to save things now. I tried to stir you up in October, 1914, but no, you 
had started in and were determined to keep it up. There is no safety except 
in justice and you know that with you and John Bull and Russia justice does 
not exist. It is, can we do it? So do it w^hile you can, and that will not be 
long now. 

Wm. Randolph Hearst on Mexico and English Boats. 
Why it is RIGHT to advise all Americans to abandon all their property 

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and their interests, their homes and their associations, their business and even 
their family connections, in Mexico, and to leave that country in order to 
protect their lives and prevent this country being involved in international 
disputes, and why is it NOT RIGHT to ask Americans to keep off of English 
boats and thus prevent any risk of their lives and the possibility of involving 
their country in international disputes? . . . Mr. Wilson informed Germany: 
"This Government . . . cannot admit the adoption of such measures or SUCH 
A WARNING OF DANGER TO OPERATE IN ANY DEGREE AS AN 
ABBREVIATION OF THE RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS bound 
on lawful errands on merchant ships of belligerent nationalities." 

Very well. But why, then, has such a warning of danger been allowed 
to abbreviate the rights of American citizens pursuing their lawful errands, 
NOT ON THE SEAS IN BELLIGERENT SHIPS, BUT ON THE SOIL 
OF A NEIGHBORING TERRITORY BEING FOUGHT OVER BY 
BELLIGERENT ASPIRANTS TO THE RULE OF THAT TERRI- 
TORY? Is an American citizen's life more sacred on board a British pas- 
senger ship than it is on Mexican soil? And if it is not, why this instant 
show of indignation and this perilous approach to war over the deaths of 
the American men and women who went down with the Lusitania, and why 
this complacent looking on, month after month, while American men and 
women are cruelly and foully assaulted and butchered by Mexican assassins 
in uniform and without uniform? 

These are not idle questions. These are not captious questions. These 
are proper questions. The countrymen and the countrywomen of those poor 
souls so wickedly abused and so cruelly slain have THE RIGHT TO DE- 
MAND THAT THESE QUESTIONS BE ANSWERED.— New York 
American, August 3, 191 5. 

German Make Better American Citizens Than the British 

"Without the Germans, who almost to a man knew^ military 
drill, discipline and organization, I do not know how we could have 
prepared our armies for the work which they were called upon to 
do. The people of the north were unaccustomed to the use of arms, 
knew little of military organization, and were restive under dis- 
cipline. We had our Westpointers and they were good, but far too 
few in number to train the vast hosts of raw recruits which were 
now called under arms. The two hundred thousand native born 
Germans who served in our armies were nearly all of them experi- 
enced in the use of arms and accustomed to the severities of mili- 
tary discipline. A large proportion of these were engaged as of- 
ficers in teaching our men to become soldiers. Among the taught 
were nearly four hundred thousand men of German descent, many 
of whom, through their practices in their Turn- and Schiitzen Hallen, 
were the quickest of all the volunteers to become efficient soldiers. 
. . . Mrs. Jefferson Davis, the wife of the Confederate President, 
has often said to me that without the Germans the North could never 
have overcome the Confederacy; and unless that had been accom- 
plished then, this Continent would have been, since then, the theatre 
pf continuous war instead of the home of peace." — From John Wil- 

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liam Burgess' book, ''The European War of 1914; its Causes, Pur- 
poses and Probable Results." $1. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 
George Washington's bodyguard were Germans, because he could 
not trust others. 

"Who makes the best American citizen — the German or the Eng- 
lishman? Which of the two from the days of George Washington 
to the first of August, 1914, has done more for the development of our 
country? Which of the two while residing in the United States as a 
citizen, as a worker, as a booster of American ideals and institutions 
takes off his hat first to the Stars and Stripes? 

If I recall correctly there are 20,000,000 American citizens with 
German blood in their veins, living somewhere between Portland, 
Me., and Portland, Ore. How many Englishmen and Anglo Ameri- 
cans are there within the same boundary lines? Are there 100,000? 
I doubt it. Traveling through Europe I have met many Britishers, 
and find that most all of them have an indifferent dislike for Ameri- 
cans, while throughout Germany there is a love for Americans and the 
United States. I am an American. I have a home in New Jersey, but 
have lived abroad for some time." 

ALPHONSE BOUCHET. 

Aliano Castle, Monte Spertoli, Italy. — From N. Y. Globe. 

The Germans are the best educated nation in the world, or that 
has ever been in the world. Their cities are the cleanest and most 
orderly, and there is not a slum in all Germany. They have no Ire- 
land on their conscience, no India, and no South Africa. They are 
efficient in the peace as in war. They are the wealthiest people in the 
world, and they have acquired their wealth cleanly, not by robbing 
and oppressing others, or even their own lower classes, but by in- 
dustry, science, and skill, against great obstacles. There are no very 
poor in Germany, no criminal classes, no permanent unemployed, 
simply because absolutely nothing is neglected or skimped. Ger- 
man "kultur," or civilization is a fact — the most luminous in the 
world. DESMOND A. FITZGERALD. 

New York, November 16, 1914. — From N. Y. Globe. 

You remember than interview the Kaiser gave Mr. Hale a few 
years ago, in which he said : "What ails England is m. i. g. — made in 
Germany," and what a sensation that created among the stiffs of 
London ! The war had scarcely begun before the British govern- 
ment informed the British public that the manufacturers there could 
now use any of German patents they wished. The New York Ameri- 
can contained a cablegram: "Here in London are all kinds of exhibi- 
tions being held to show the British manufacturers just what Ger- 
many makes and how she makes it." 

CLARENCE H. MACKAY. 

Mr. Wilson, was Henry Ward Beecher justified in making 
speeches in England in defense of our war to put down the rebels? 
Do you think that Lincoln's side of the case should have been heard 
in England, when they were on the verge of war against us? Do you 

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think England should have driven Mr. Beecher out and not allowed 
Mr. Beecher to defend Lincoln's side? If it was fair and just for 
Beecher to defend our government there when they tried to mob 
him, it Avas fair and just for Dr. Dernberg to defend Germany's side 
here, and to not have been invited out because he did it so ably and 
unanswerably. Shame on such Americans. 

Big Crooks and Belgian Neutrality 

In an article, June 23, 1912, by John L. Eddy, which has already 
been mentioned, is this account: "Belgium, where no one a few 
weeks ago would have thought of intimating even the possibility of a 
revolution, has also seen rioting break out in all of its principal cities. 
The disturbances here are frankly Socialistic. Many lives have al- 
ready been lost, and much property destroyed. Cries of 'Long live 
France, let us be annexed to France,' not even aroused the opposition 
of the mobs." 

Professor Herbert Sanborn says: 'Tn the year 1901, I spent the 
whole summer in Brussels and in other parts of Belgium, and know 
how absolutely pro-French and anti-German the spirit of this whole 
region, once a part of France, still is. Even the whole Flemish popu- 
lation has been Gallicized completely. Brussels is a small Paris in a 
sense that no city in Alsace or Lorraine ever has been. Everywhere 
there is the same loose surface life that we find in France ; only in 
these countries does the European traveller expect to find mistakes in 
his bills and only here is the avalanche of bad money in circulation — 
the latter an unheard of thing throughout the length and breath of the 
German Empire." 

With you big devils and John Bull all this raving about Bel- 
gian Neutrality is simply hot air. You know in the first place that 
John Bull does not care any more about neutralities than you big 
crooks here do about the damned public. And next you know for 
years before this war, Belgian neutrality toward Germany did not 
exist. And you big devils and lying papers well know all this howl 
about Belgian neutrality is rank rot to deceive the sapheads here 
that do not know beans when the bag is open. Their lying papers 
here have done so much lying about Germany to help that pirate, 
John Bull, and suppressed news of outrages much worse and more 
extensive than any exaggerated lie they have so industrially spread 
about Germany and Belgium, and yet these brazen, lying newspapers 
claim to be so reliable and trustworthy. England bombarded the 
unfortified city of Belgium, Ostend, and dropped air bombs upon that 
city, and the man in England that dared to publish it, was raided by 
the British police for letting even Englishmen know it. England 
wants this hell ; yet it is awful for Germany to give London a taste 
of what they wanted. 

You big crooks and lying newspapers know that John Bull plot- 
ted with France and Russia to get war with Germany, because Eng- 
land could not commercially and industrially compete with Germany. 
That is why England got France and Russia to agree to head off 

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Germany everywhere, so that Germany could not secure more terri- 
tory if they could prevent it. England and France and Russia could 
violate rights of small countries and gobble up as much of the earth 
as possible and have an imperial policy; but they always stepped in 
to see that Germany could not get desirable territory if they could 
stop it, and they plotted to get this war. And you big crooks and 
lying politicians and Tories here that serve England know this is the 
devilish truth. 

Belgians Murdered Germans Before War Had Been Declared. 

". . . As you know, we were in Belgium. After having spent 
there sorrowful nights and days, entirely cut off from any news from 
Germany, we were able to cross the German frontier on the day of 
mobilization. Already at that time — when there was not yet any 
cause for it from the German side — an incredible excitement prevailed 
throughout the country showing itself especially in a fanatic hatred 
of Germans. The soldiers — Belgium was already totally mobilized 
— marched through the streets of Brussels, yelling and in many in- 
stances drunk; everybody showed great fear of the German army; 
it was dangerous to speak German and shouts were heard: 'Tuez 
les Allemands' (Kill the Germans). Thousands thronged in a run 
on the National Bank, the restaurants only gave lunch against ad- 
vanced payment in cash. When we passed through Liege, we found 
the town bristling with guns. We had to pass the frontier by foot, 
as all trains were stopped. All our baggage was lost, except that little 
which we could carry, and there was no hope that we ever would get 
it back. 

Meanwhile, the most unbelievable persecutions of Germans took 
place, women and children were killed by the most cruel tortures in a 
way only thought possible at the Congo in the darkest of Africa, 
perhaps, but never in Europe. To-day we know the cause of it : An 
agreement existed between England, France and Belgium to attack 
Germany by way of Belgium." — From a letter from Munich, dated 
August 23, 1914, and published in The^ Fatherland. 

The Pro-English Here Has So Much Sympathy for the Belgians 
Yet Had No Sympathy for the Boers. 

The Boers had a clean record; the Belgians have the Congo 
atrocities against them besides murdering Germans before the war 
began. You pro-English know it was diabolical, high-handed robbery 
and assassination, what England did to the Boers. The Belgians had 
sided with the French. The Boers had not offended England in any 
manner except they wanted to retain possession of what was theirs. 
This offended the pompous highway robber. John Bull shot down 
Boer women, burned their houses, dragged wives to witness the ex- 
ecution of their husbands for defending their own homes and property 
and you side with that treacherous outlaw. The books have been in 
many of our public libraries for several years that record these facts. 

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If you were so running over with sympathy and justice as you pre- 
tend to be, you would insist that England indemnify the Boers and 
get to halleluiah out of their country, before she or any one else had 
a right to insist that Germany do anything of the kind for Belgium. 
There was no enemy beyond the Boers that necessitated England's 
invading the Boer country. With England it was a matter of con- 
quest ; with Germany it was a case of doing to the other fellows what 
they were getting ready to do to her and doing it first. If three as- 
sassins were coming at you and you had to fight them and your next- 
door neighbor had said to your enemies : That is right, do him up, 
you would not stand in your front door-yard and wait for the allies 
to arrive and land on you with a brick and smash in your front door. 
You would get at the nearest thug as quick as possible, short-cut-it 
straight at him across your neighbor's backyard to get him. And if 
your neighbor got in your way to delay you to the advantage of your 
assassins, you would bust him one on the jaw with a club and go on. 
You would be justified in putting such a neighbor to sleep in order to 
get to shy the first brick at your assassins. Exactly this happened to 
Germany and you one-sided pro-English here know it. Until you 
make a howl to England and insist that she indemnify the Boers 
and vacate their country you have not shown the least intention of 
being fair or just toward Germany and you know it. If you were 
really indignant at injustice you would insist that the notorious, case- 
hardened pirate John Bull make good for his crime to the Boers be- 
fore you would even blame Germany. But you act as though John 
Bull were a saint instead of the same old pirate turned loose again. 
John Bull is a thug sneaking down the dark alley of diplomacy with 
his gang to assassinate his industrial and commercial superior. In- 
dustrially England was down, away down and you men in high posi- 
tions here know it. England could not industrially and commercially 
compete with Germany and you men know it. But there is no sense 
of fair play about you ; you are for England just because it is Eng- 
land. You do not believe in the best man winning in commerce and 
industry. Because that would allow Germany to surpass pompous 
John Bull. Germany deserves more territory ; but if she had intended 
to extend her domain by conquest she would have got busy when 
England was having all she could do to assassinate the Boer republic 
or when Russia was done up by the Japs. 

And you men know that Belgian government was in the plot, 
too, for this war. That is why fortifications next to Germany were 
modernized, and this was done under French engineers. Mr. Forbes 
Sutherland, a member of the British Military Intelligence Depart- 
ment, confessed in Boston before an audience of about 3,000 persons 
that he was sent to Belgium about a week before the war to meet the 
head of the Belgian Secret Service to concert measures. You big 
fellows know that Belgian government was in with England and 
France and was not neutral. Belgium had no choice about the 
matter. She was afraid to disobey England, 

That Britisher George Bernard Shaw wrote a letter to the 

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Nation in which he said : "Neutrality is a humbug. ... I have set 
myself to discredit the Belgian pretext for war. I did so even before 
the documents found in Brussels by Germans left the Foreign Office 
so completely bowled out on the Belgian point by the German Chan- 
cellor, that it had not a word to say and was reduced, hiring a street 
boy to put out his tongue at him. That was what came of not taking 
my advice and evacuating an untenable position." The documents 
show the plans of France in case of war with Germany, how France 
was to pass through Belgium and also the plans of England to do the 
same. These plans had been agreed to by Belgium in 1906. These 
documents were published in New York American, December 20, 1914, 
and can be had of The Fatherland for 10 cents. 

Mr. Shaw said : "Germany offered to keep the peace with Belgium 
on a condition — that of a right of way — which Britain was the first 
to demand and enforce by war in China." 

John L. Stoddard wrote from Europe, September 14, 1914: "It 
is now known that an understanding has long existed between Bel- 
gium, France and England, whereby, in case of war, French troops 
should be allowed to pass through Belgian territory ; but that, if Ger- 
many on her part should attempt it, England woud intervene. For 
this much evidence is at hand. History will show that French officers 
were already in the fortress of Liege when Germany was mobilizing. 
Two French officers, taken prisoners at Namur, acknowledged that 
they had arrived there already on the 30th of July!" 

What would American readers say if they knew that as early as 
July 30 French guns were in Liege, where they have been captured 
alongside of French officers and soldiers? Such is stated in a letter 
written to Mr. Lehman, house superintendent of the Beecher Memo- 
rial Building, from his brother in Germany, who has been on the 
ground. What would they think if it was proved, as it is recited in 
the semi-official government journal, that two wounded Frenchman 
had been found in Namur who said that their regiment, the Forty- 
fifth, was brought to Namur as early as July 30th? 

"Belgium is fortified on its German boundary, whereas it has 
neglected during the last thirty years to take similar precautions to 
protect itself against its French and English neighbors. There is a 
secret Anglo-French-Belgian agreement. Germany for a long time 
had knowledge of this agreement and acted accordingly. The only 
course left open for Germany's self-preservation was to anticipate the 
passage of troops through the 'neutral territory' of Belgium and to 
take possession of its fortresses. The quick and precise strategic 
movements of its armies assured their success and checkmated French- 
English actions in Belgium. Belgium has ever even tried to rely upon 
herself. French engineers, under the supervision of General Brial- 
mont, constructed the Belgian fortresses. Since General Brialmont's 
retirement in 1886, up to the present time, French engineers had 
charge of the modernization of all her forts. The entire Belgian army 
for the last thirty years has been under French instruction and in- 
fluence. The German Government is in possession of documents ex- 

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changed between the present commander of the British army, General 
French, and the French Secretary of War, in which all the details 
of a landing of an English army expedition on which French and 
Belgian territory were discussed and settled. France, according to 
secret agreement, dispatched officer^ and troops to Liege before the 
declaration of war. Germany had knowledge of the Franco-Belgian 
military agreements. She knew of France's plans. The only suc- 
cessful defense Germany could ofifer was to answer attack with at- 
tack." 

Here are the details of Mr. Sutherland's statements : "Mr. Forbes 
Sutherland, who is in the employ of the British Government and also 
of the Boston Herald, in an unguarded moment made the statement 
printed below. He was addressing the Boston Press Club on Janu- 
ary 14, 1915, and like so many Englishmen and English-Americans 
believed that this country was solidly British, because its big Eastern 
press is so. Assuming, therefore, that he could drop the British mark 
of piety and discuss one phase of the pre-war history in which he 
himself had been a prominent factor, he said, in substance, the fol- 
lowing : 

That for several years he had been a member of the British Mili- 
tary Intelligence Department; that he landed in New York toward 
the end of June and he there found a cablegram from the home office 
in London, already three days old, telling him to report immediately; 
that he telephoned his chief in Montreal, Canada, to inquire what it 
was all about and that he was told it was for the European service ; 
that he had returned to London and that about one week before the 
first declaration of war, he had gone to Antwerp with one of the heads 
of the Intelligence Department to concert measures with the head of 
the Belgium Secret Service; that he had taken part in the British ex- 
peditionary forces and was wounded at the battel of Mons ; that he 
was now in this country, overseeing the shipment of horses for the 
British army. 

The accuracy of this transcript of Mr. Sutherland's remarks is 
vouched for by two witnesses. It has also been read, as here printed, 
from the platform of Symphony Flail, Boston, to some three thousand 
people, in the presence of representatives of the Boston press, includ- 
ing the Herald. Since Mr. Sutherland has not denied having said 
these things, and since there is no reason whatsoever to doubt his 
veracity, it becomes now the duty of the British Ambassador and Sir 
Edward Grey, also of the Belgian Minister and his King, to explain 
the discrepancies which exist between their previous assertions and 
the experiences of Mr. Sutherland. 

If Belgium was living up to the duties imposed upon her by the 
treaty of 1839, to observe 'the same neutrality' toward all nations, 
how could the head of the Belgium Secret Service receive one of 
the heads of the British Military Intelligence Department, accom- 
panied by Mr. Forbes Sutherland, 'to concert measures' about 'one 
week before the first declaration of war'? Will the responsible 
British and Belgian statesmen tell the world what these 'measures' 



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were, and why Sir Edward Grey delayed sending his inquiry to 
France and Germany concerning their respective intentions in regard 
to Belgium until one week after his emissaries had 'concerted meas- 
ures' w^th the head of the Belgium Secret Service? 

Secondly. Why was Mr. Sutherland called back to England 
in the latter part of June, that is soon after — possibly immediately 
after — the murder of Serajevo, 'for the European service,' unless Sir 
Edward Grey anticipated a European conflagration? And if he an- 
ticipated it thus early why has he not published any of the earlier 
documents in the British Blue Book? 

Thirdly. What were Mr. Sutherland's instructions, when he was 
sent back to America in June? Is it customary for members of the 
British Military Intelligence Department to be stationed in the United 
States? Are members thus stationed in foreign countries not what is 
popularly called spies? 

Finally, is it customary for the British Government to give per- 
mission to members of their Military Intelligence Department, sta- 
tioned in the United States, to accept employment by the American 
press? How many Britishers of this sort are members of the staffs 
of the American press at the present time?" — Dr. Edmund von March 
in The Fatherland. 

Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Hall, professor of Christian Ethics in the 
Union Theological Seminary, says : "I and many other Americans are 
not as sorry for the Belgians as are some others of us. If those who 
now pretend so much sympathy for the fate of Belgium have forgot- 
ten the Congo atrocities, God has not. German soldiers have never 
cut off the hands and limbs of human beings, nor murdered inoffensive 
men, women and children in cold blood. No nation should have lived 
and prospered on the spoils of the Congo atrocities as Belgium had 
done." 

Miss Clare Benedict, the great grandniece of Fennimore Cooper, 
describing the experiences of herself and her aged mother in travel- 
ing across Belgium to England before the outbreak of hostilities on 
Saturday, August 1st, that is, before any declaration of war by any 
nation had been made, says, as follows : 

"At Liege, where we changed carriages for the third time, a 
whole row of idle men stood and laughed at us as we attempted to 
transport our belongings from one train to the other — no money 
tempted them, no appeals roused their pity, we spoke in French natu- 
rally, but they jeered at us openly. One man remarked. 'You have 
plenty of time to lose your train !' Finally utterly fagged and un- 
strung after the unexpected insults that we had received, we reached 
Brussels, where, in spite of deliberate attempts to put us wrong, we 
managed to catch the express for Ostend." 

To the Editor of the Evening Sun. — Sir: In your editorial, "The 
Great Delusion,''' you state that "Belgium assuredly of all nations 
upon the face of the earth desired simply to live her own life as she 
willed." Now, Mr. Editor, why do you keep on making such de- 
liberate misstatements after it has been proven to the satisfaction of 

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every fair-minded man that Belgium, or I should rather say the un- 
speakable King Albert and his advisers, betrayed their own country 
and plotted v^ith England and France against Germany for years. 
I am not a German, nor am I even of German descent, but this dis- 
gusting hypocrisy about Belgium "neutrality" makes me sick. 
New York, December 11th. ERIC M. H. 

"The Belgian people had been told at the beginning of the war 
that Germany demanded that the Belgian forces should fight against 
the French and English, the truth had become known only three 
months later, when the Belgian Gray Book was published. Then 
Belgium was practically occupied territory." — Dr. Dernberg. The 
French owe a great debt to the Belgians. If Belgium had taken the 
money offered and allowed the Germans to pass through, it would 
have been a sick day for treacherous, vengeful Paris and Belgium 
would have not been laid desolate. That treacherous Belgian Gov- 
ernment deserves no sympathy whatever; for it deceived its own 
people. 

John Bull and France and Russia plotted war on Germany. And 
Belgium planned with England and France. The big crooks here 
are well aware that this is the truth, and no one can read the facts 
presented here about John Bull and France and Russia and Servia 
and speak the truth and deny it. When they plotted this way Ger- 
many was justified by international law in going through Belgium, 
as I will now show you. Sapheads know about as much about inter- 
national law as they do about the man in the moon. 

First, here is the official British opinion, the English White Pa- 
per (edited September 28, 1914), Article 6 of the Preface, where this 
law of necessity is conceded by the British Foreign Office in the fol- 
lowing statement: ''Germany's position must be understood. She 
has fulfilled her treaty obligations in the past ; her action now was 
not wanton. Belgium was of supreme military importance in a war 
with France ; if such a war occurred, it would be one of life and death ; 
Germany feared that, if she did no occupy Belgium, France might do 
so." This is an official British opinion. 

That British author, Sir R. Phillmores, on International Law, 
says : "International Law considers the right of self-preservation as 
prior and paramount to that of Territorial Inviolability, and where 
they conflict, justifies the maintenance of the former at the expense 
of latter." Sir Edward Grey has confessed that the British For- 
eign Office planned with France for war on Germany. And Belgium, 
a neutral country to those around her, had planned with PZngland and 
France and fortified against Germany to help England and France to 
carry out their plan of war on Germany. International Law justified 
Germany in going through Belgium to get at France. England and 
France are the ones that ought to pay heavy damages to Ger- 
many and Belgium for this war. Germany was right in going through 
Belgium regardless of that treaty, and here is our own U. S. Supreme 
Court on the right to break a treaty as Germany did. 

Pomeroy's International Law says: "The right of self-preserva- 

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tion authorizes a nation to recede from a treaty which it cannot fulfill 
without causing its own destruction ; and this faculty is even a tacit 
condition in all treaties." Our U. S. Supreme Court recognizes this 
right to refuse under the law of necessity, to live up to a treaty. 
(See Volume 130, page 601, on the treaty with China.) The de- 
cision of Justice Curtis in 1908, was that: "While it Would be a mat- 
ter of utmost gravity and delicacy to refuse to execute a treaty, the 
power to do so was a prerogative of which no country could be de- 
prived without deeply affecting its independence." 

Oppenheim's International Law says : "From the earliest time of 
the existence of the Law of Nations, self-preservation was considered 
sufficient justification for many acts of a State which violated other 
States"; "Such acts of violence in the interest of self-preservation 
are exclusively excused as are necessary in self-defense." 

Twiss' International Law says : "The right of self-preservation 
gives to a nation a moral power of acting in regard to other Nations 
in such a manner as may be requisite to prevent them from obstruct- 
ing its preservation." 

John Bull deserves to be crucified for giving Belgium to un- 
derstand that she would not be allowed to let the Germans pay toll 
and pass through to France. That is what England did. John Bull 
was an infernal monster to insist that the Belgians must fight the 
Germans. That should have been left to the Belgians themselves to 
decide. If they had allowed the Germans to pass through to France, 
Belgium would not have been laid desolate. So let John Bull and 
France pay Belgium for saving Paris. The French wanted the war 
and it should have been brought home to their rotten city of Paris. 
Germany may have been too severe when the Belgian snippers shot 
at them after they had passed. But our reporters who were on the 
spot are the men to trust and not the lying British or Belgians. They 
are in a pitiable condition. And it was England that forced them to 
fight the Germans instead of allowing them to go through, as the 
allies did themselves through Greece, which would have been laid 
desolate as Belgium, if the Greeks had resisted. There is no govern- 
ment in all Europe that needs hell and damnation brought home to it 
more than that British Government, and they will get it good and 
plenty as I have explained. That high-and-mighty pirate is about to 
the end of his rope. See how our government helps out John Bull 
in grabbing Lincoln for telling the truth about England, that British 
Government. They want him back there to shoot him for it. That 
is the same government that would have shot or hung George Wash- 
ington, if they had got a chance, and no one would ever suspect that 
this is the same nation that backed George Washington? The Tories 
have got in control of it. Read that loyal American daily, the New 
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